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Generally speaking, the significance of the indirect results may very often be of more importance than the significance of direct ones.
Tertium Organum (1922)
Knowledge must start from some foundation, something must be recognized as known; otherwise we shall be obliged always to define one unknown by means of another.
Tertium Organum (1912)
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
Tertium Organum (1922)
People who think they can control their negative emotions and manifest them when they want to, simply deceive themselves.
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution (1950)
Existing criminology is insufficient to isolate barbarism.
A New Model of the Universe (1932)
The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution (1950)
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.
The absurdity of both these propositions shows that they cannot refer to our world.
Tertium Organum (1912)
With his hands he unites heaven and earth, and the four elements that form the world are controlled by him.
The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913)
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution (1950)
Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
A New Model of the Universe (1932)
The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.
Tertium Organum (1912)
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.
A New Model of the Universe (1932)
This limitation of the field of vision of criminology together with the absence of an exact and permanent definition of the concept of crime is one of the chief characteristics of our culture.
A New Model of the Universe (1932)
The fool always carries them, although he has long since forgotten what they mean. Nevertheless they belong to him, even though he does not know their use.
The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913)
And then I saw a man in terrible suffering, hung by one leg, head downward, to a high tree.
The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913)
The axioms which Tertium Organum embraces cannot be formulated in our language.
Tertium Organum (1912)
Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.
A New Model of the Universe (1932)
The number of these laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
A New Model of the Universe (1932)