Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods

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

Nothing is possible without love.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.