The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.