I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.