The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.