The stacking together of the paintings of the great masters in museums is a catastrophe, and a collection of a hundred good intellects produces collectively one idiot.

Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

We can never finally know. I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

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

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger, all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be suppressed in a humanitarian ordering of society.

The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.