Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.
The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of ‘participation mystique’ – to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual...
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
Dawn is born at midnight.
To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.
We discover ourselves through others.
He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.
The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc...
The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.
Colors express the main psychic functions of man.
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit.
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one’s whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.