Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.