Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.