 The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. |
| Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. |
| We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. |
| 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. |
| We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. |
| We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. |
| There is no coming to consciousness without pain. |
| 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. |
| Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. |
| 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. |
| Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. |
| 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. |
| Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. |
| Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. |
| The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. |
| 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. |
| I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. |
| 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. |
| Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. |
