“To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.”

“All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone else—in sum, all deviation from man's normative nature—in a much more fundamental way and in a far more ultimate sense one does to oneself, and not just metaphorically but literally.”

“One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.”

“As virtuous men pass mildly awayAnd whisper to their souls, to goe,While some of their friends doe say,The breath goes now, and some say, no:So let us melt, and make no noise...”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“I sometimes astonish my patients by telling them that it is far more important that they should be able to lose themselves than that they should be able to find themselves. For it is only in losing oneself that one does find oneself.”