Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

All that matters is love and work.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.