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

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.