Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
Our unconscious is the key to our life’s pursuits.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?
Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The “newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.
Every human life contains a potential. If that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
God enters through the wound.
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.