I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.