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

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.