The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.