The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important