New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.