You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.