I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.