The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.
In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.
Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life