Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

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

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.