“I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.”

“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”

“Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.”

“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.”

“I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.”

“I think that Hitler was abnormal in his sexual needs. That is, he needed too little from the opposite sex. He considered women as objects of beauty, and he often talked with affection about his own mother. I obtained the impression that he disliked his father, because he never mentioned him. But it is a bad thing if a man has too little Eros in him. It makes him insensitive, and probably leads to cruelty. Freud, Sigmund Freud, the last of the great German psychiatrists, who died in England, pointed out the relationship between frustrated love and cruelty. I believe it is what you psychiatrists term sadism. I'm convinced that a man who does not need the love of a woman, and thinks he can forgo it, or who does forgo it, can turn to cruelty and sadism as a substitute.”

“If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.”

“People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.”

“I believe the love of flowers to be as inherent in the disposition as any other inclination.”

“I'm not even sure we really had that much need for God as much as we did seem to have a need to believe in Him.”