I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.
The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Called or not, God is always there.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.
Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.