Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Superstition and accident manifest the will of God.
