The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. 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.

The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

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

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

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

To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.