A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

One must be able to let things happen.

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.