Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.