Without freedom there can be no morality.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Liverpool is the pool of life; it makes life lively.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!
The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary.
Whether you call the principle of existence “God,” “matter,” “energy,” or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938.
The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.
There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.
Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides.
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.
Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.
Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.