The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the yearβs course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word βhappyβ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
