Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.