Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

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

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.

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