Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

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