Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

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

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful. Man pos­i­tively needs gen­eral ideas & con­vic­tions that will give a mean­ing to his life & enable him to find a place for him­self in the uni­verse. He can stand the most incred­i­ble hard­ships when he is con­vinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his mis­for­tunes, he has to admit that he is tak­ing part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.