It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.