Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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.
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.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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.
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?
Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
