It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.