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.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.