“The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?”
“If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.”
“I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.”
“We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.”
“We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.”
“No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.”
“The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.”
“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.”
“The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.”
“When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.”
“The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.”
“We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”
“Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.”
“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.”
“The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.”
“Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.”
“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
“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.”
“I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”
“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.”
“Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ''ambivalence'': a collision between thought and feeling.”
“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.”
“The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.”
“Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.”
“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.”
“We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.”
“Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.”