The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.
Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
Even a lie is a psychic fact.
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.
Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.
Dream the dream onward.
A sense of a wider meaning to one’s existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.
In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.
Hitler’s unconscious seems to be female.
Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.
Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
Hitler’s movement is near to Mohammedanism.
I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.
Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.
Plato’s world of ideas is beautiful.