The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.