Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

Dawn is born at midnight.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.