Philosophy on reflection

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

“The only journey is the one within.”

“Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!”

“We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide.”

“No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.”

“But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.”

“He was a poet and hated the approximate.”

“Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.”

“They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots.”

“A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.”