Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us