The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
To me dreams are a part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive, but expresses something as best it can.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover In the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; oftentimes it grows turbid.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
