During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides