But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

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

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.