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

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

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

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.