When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

One cannot keep all old views and opinions and acquire new ones.

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.