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

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

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.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

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

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

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

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.

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

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.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

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.