The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.