Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

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.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.