In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.