I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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