Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.