Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.