If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.