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

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

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