The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

I would rather be whole than good.