The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent