If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

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.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.