Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.