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.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

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

I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly – if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over – something almost always comes out of it.