The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.