Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
If you want to understand the jungle, you can’t be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You’ve got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul.
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, “divine.”
For better to come, good must stand aside.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
One must be able to let things happen.
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.
Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.
We don’t really heal anything; we simply let it go.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.