For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.