Summoned or not, the god will come.
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance – almost any sort of spiritual guidance.
In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!
Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.
The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.
One is always in the dark about one’s own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.
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.