As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.