The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

The complex develops out of the simple.

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.