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.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

If youth knew; if age could.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.