Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

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.

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.