People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.