I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief