Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

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

It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.

I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.