Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

The gods have become our diseases.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.