And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.