A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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.
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
