In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.
Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.
Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know.
The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.
But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
I would rather be whole than good.