The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.