“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

The ego is not master in its own house.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

The unconscious mind is that strange sub-world revealed through dreams, lapses, or Freudian slips. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Our fears find us and force us to confront them over and over again.

Every past has a way out: find it.

Don’t worry about finding the right person, focus on being one.

I admire the inner peace I found.

Don’t always look for the wild in the forests. But when you find the one, explore with abandon.

I see peace when I look into your eyes and that, my love, is rare to find.

I love to live in the past because it is the only place where I find you.

Finding love and friendship in one person is a real pleasure.