Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.