Whoever looks into the mirror of the water will see first of all his own face. Whoever goes to himself risks a confrontation with himself.

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

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

My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear.

-- Thomas Hobbes

All life is problem solving.

-- Karl Popper

The first thing we can say of life is that it is a nexus.

-- Wilhelm Dilthey

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

-- Hannah Arendt

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

-- Bertrand Russell

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein