Quotes

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.

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.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throughout the world.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness -- that I myself am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

“There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!”

“The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.”

“The key to success is action.”

“The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.”