About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it.

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.