The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.