As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
If there is anything that 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.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
A shoe that fits one person pinches another.
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 take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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