What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

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

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

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.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.