The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

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

The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.