Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Man’s task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo In the human soul.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed the bridge on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
