“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.”
“If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.--"The Content of the Psychoses”
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion”
“The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.(on being 36 yrs old)”
“In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.”
“...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.”