Success has made failures of many men.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41]

You are at enmity with yourself.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it should do, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the "conscious" mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "hearts," or intuition, another.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, ... a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.