Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!