We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.