The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. |
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely |
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely |
The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man |
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong |
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases |
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. |
The term 'religion' designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum |
The true leader is always led |
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent |
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid |
The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it. |
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. |
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. |
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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. |