Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.