You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

What we lack is intensity of life.

A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.