We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.