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.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

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 objects it loves.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

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.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

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.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

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

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.