Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

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