To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.
What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.
The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.
In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
Our unconscious is the key to our life’s pursuits.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.