Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.