Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
When I go and work with people, I never say, 'Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.' It's like a diet. You've got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.