It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox..

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..

One cannot live without inconsistency..

Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything une….

The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very….

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further..

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking..

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving….

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it….

Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The mo….

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with….

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work.….

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong..

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see..

I would rather be whole than good..

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female..

Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a….

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys..

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience..

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this visi….

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-….