In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.