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

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.

My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear.

-- Thomas Hobbes

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

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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 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

All life is problem solving.

-- Karl Popper