Without love we fall ill.
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
The madman is a dreamer awake.
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.
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.
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.