We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.