Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.