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?
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.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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 th...
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...
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as...
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up...
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconsci...
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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 a vital element...
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.