"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
"But what if I should discover that the enemy himself is within me, that I myself am the enemy that must be loved - what then?"
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself."
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
"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."
"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."
"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but 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."
"It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities... interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, be"
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
"The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life."
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
"Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality."
"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."
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
"We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life."
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
"Beautiful bodies and beautiful personalities rarely go together."