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

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"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."

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"It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it."

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"An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead."

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"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."

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

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"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."

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"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality"

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"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."

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"Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!"

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

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"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."

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

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

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

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"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."

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

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"The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity."

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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

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

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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

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"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."

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"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."

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"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."

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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

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