Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

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

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