These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.