So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.