Quotes on Memories Dreams Reflections

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

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.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.