For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.