The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.