As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.