The child who became the world-renowned psychologist C.G. Jung was christened Karl Gustav II Jung.

In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings… But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.