Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, read more

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as read more

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the read more

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of read more

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always read more

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.