The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

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.

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.