Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.