I don't believe. I know.

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

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

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

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

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.