In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.