Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.