Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

The gods have become our diseases.