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" There is no birth of consciousness without pain. "

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" A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. "

" 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. "

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

" There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. "

" 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. "

" Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. "

" Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. "

" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

" 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. "

" One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. "

" 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. "

" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

" For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself. "