No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.
What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.
Nothing is possible without love.
An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.
Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.
A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.
The self is our life’s goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.
Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.
I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice.
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.
Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas.