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.

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.

Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.

How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.