Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

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

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.