Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

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.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.