Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.