I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

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