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" 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. "

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" The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. "

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

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

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

" Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

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

" A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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