"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."

"The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories."

"We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is so will be his ultimate truth."

"That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well."

"What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it."

"Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being."

"A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally shortsighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single madman. Unfortunately, this realization does not seem to have penetrated very far - and our blindness is extremely dangerous."

"The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual."

"It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course-for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

"Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next."

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

"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 primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith."

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

"The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."

"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."

"When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow."

"My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

"In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us."

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

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

"I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time."

"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."

"I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force."

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."

"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 deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

"The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one's best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one's own will and one's own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development."

"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."

"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."

"We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it."

"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."

"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."

"But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!"

"A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning."

"Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which "similar things coincide, without there being any apparent cause."

"What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate."

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

"Where your fear is,there is your task."

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."