Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

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

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.