The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.
It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.
If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.
Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.
I don’t aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.
Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.
The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were, in the souls of men.
Instinct is like Nature herself – prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.
The true leader is always led.
Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.
A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.
People cannot stand too much Reality.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.