Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

A strong egoism is a protection.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.