A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.