Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.