The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.