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.

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.

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