...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.