It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.