Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act..

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is….

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way..

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence..

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age..

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being..

Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that….

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is t….

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out..

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of de….

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being..

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged..

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other..

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against..

Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaula….

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our asp….

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which ….

Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also ….

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness..

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it..