The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.