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

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

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

"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."

"Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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 all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."

"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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