Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

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

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

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.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.