One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.