Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.