From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.