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" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

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" 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. "

" A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. "

" Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. "

" The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. "

" All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. "

" Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. "

" Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. "

" 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 has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? "

" The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. "

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

" Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. "

" 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 objects it loves. "

" The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. "

" 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. "

" There is no birth of consciousness without pain. "

" Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. "

" 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. "

" Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. "

" 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. "

" The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. "

" 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 word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. "