Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.