The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.