Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.
Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is … lack of faith.
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is … lack of faith.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.