I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.