Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.