The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.