There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.