"But one thing I will tell you: the exploration of the unconscious has in fact and in truth discovered the age-old, timeless way of initiation."

"The human characteristic is consciousness; the characteristic of consciousness is a process of perpetual exhaustion, of detachment without rest or exclusion from everything that comes before it."

"With departing Venus, large to the last, and shining even to the edge of the horizon, the vast dome presents at this moment, such a spectacle !"

"It is, I imagine, common in youth to feel in quick succession a number of different attitudes towards life and the world, and to feel each in turn as strongly as if it had no competitors."

"The opus magnum had two aims: the rescue of the human soul and the salvation of the cosmos."

"The abstract nature of work in a technological age leaves the worker dissatisfied."

"Man today hungers and thirsts for a safe relationship to the psychic forces within himself."

"The average man, says Shaw, can advance not a single reason for thinking that the earth is round."

"At this moment I do not believe in anything and I have no hope."

"As for the great problems, we have no advantage over our ancestors or our more recent predecessors: men have always known everything, at least in what concerns the Essential."

"Birds, like men, have a history. They are unconscious of it, but its accomplished facts affect them still and shape the course of their existence."

"It is sweet on awaking in the early morn to listen to the small bird singing on the tree. "

"Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much is in the germ! "

"The traveller need not go out of the road to get as many as he wants; every bush and vine teems with palatable fruit."

"THE SO-CALLED science of psychology is now in chaos, with no sign that order is soon to be restored. "

"I believe that this feeling for the hearth, for the immemorial lares and penates, is infinitely stronger in Baltimore than in New York — that it has better survived there, indeed, than in any other large city of America."

"One day, when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger and black, fiercely contending with one another..."

"Those who are practising ‘stopping’ should retire to some quiet place and there, sitting erect, earnestly seek tranquilize and concentrate the mind."

"The psychic life-force, the libido, symbolizes itself in the sun or personifies itself in figures of heroes with solar attributes."

"Myth is certainly not an infantile phantasm, but one of the most important requisites of primitive life."

"The return to the simple life can be regarded as an unhoped-for piece of good fortune even though it demands considerable self-sacrifice and is not undertaken voluntarily."

"Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy."

" By Latin and English Poetry, I was born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature, flowers, birds and mountains, sun and moon..."