I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.