The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.