It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine