Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

The healthy man does not torture others.

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.