Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
