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.

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

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