When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.