"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."

"There are no accidents, only encounters in the soul."

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."