Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.

The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.