Nothing is possible without love.

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.