The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.