Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.A ’scream’ is always just that - a noise and not music.
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.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.