So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.