To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

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Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.

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