The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.

Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.