Now it is nothing but torture.

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

In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise.