As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

The healthy man does not torture others.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.