It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

The gods have become our diseases.