I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

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

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.