Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.