The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

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

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

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.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.