The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.