When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea a….

One man's faith is another man's delusion.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is c….

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of pe….

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven..

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates..

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can se….

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms..

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult….

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a le….

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us..

Imagination flourishes best in solitude..

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed..

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as ir….

It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some insta….

What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are ….

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it..

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, fe….

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glor….

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour..