What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

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.

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.