But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

A strong egoism is a protection.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.