Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

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

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.