Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.