It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

I would rather be whole than good.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.