Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.