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• "A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music."

• "A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment."

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

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

• "Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

• "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."

• "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

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

• "Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own."

• "There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course.

• "Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."

• "I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."

• "If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

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

• "Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."

• "We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

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

• "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

• "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."

• "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."

• "Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

• "The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."

• "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

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

• "Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious."

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