We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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.

In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.