In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

If there is anything that 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.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.