The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.

Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.