No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.