Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.