I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in my eighth decade, and the changing opinions of men scarcely impress me any more; the thoughts of the old masters are of greater value to me than the philosophical prejudices of the Western mind.

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.