Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.