 One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. |
| 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. |
| Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. |
| The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. |
| Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. |
| In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. |
| All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. |
| Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. |
| Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. |
| Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? |
| When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. |
| The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. |
| Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. |
| 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. |
| Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. |
| A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. |
| 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. |
| Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. |
| Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. |
| Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. |
