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.

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.