Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. 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.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

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.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.