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.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

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.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.