Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

One is very crazy when in love.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect.