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.
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.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
