The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.