If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.

Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.