The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.
The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.[L’homme qui a le plus vécu n’est pas celui qui a compté le plus d’années; mais celui qui a le plus senti la vie.]
The man susceptible to art stands in the same relation to the reality of dreams as the philosopher to the reality of existence; he is a close and willing observer, for from these pictures he reads the meaning of life, and by these processes he trains himself for life.
The life of a man is like a flower, blooming so gaily in a field. Then, along comes a goat, he eats it, and the flower is gone![Жизнь человеческая подобна цветку, пышно произрастающему в поле: пришел козел, съел и — нет цветка…]
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
The greatest failing in men is their love of life.[Le plus grand faible des hommes, c’est l’amour qu’ils ont de la vie.]
The great problems of life, including of course sex, are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
