There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion |
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. |
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . . . the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element. |
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic. |
To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful. |
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. |
We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives. |
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. |
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology |
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. |
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. |
We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain |
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself . . . We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil. |
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. |
What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind |