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

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.