The unconscious is commonly regarded as a sort of incapsulated fragment of our most personal and intimate life - something like what the Bible calls the "heart" and considers the source of all evil thoughts.

Strong natures – or should one rather call them weak? - do not like to be reminded of this [their unconscious nature], but prefer to think of themselves as heroes.

But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind.

If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

We are still living in a wonderful new world where man thinks himself astonishingly new and "modern." This is unmistakable proof of the youthfulness of human consciousness, which has not yet grown aware of its historical antecedents.

Naše doba je epochou chaosu a rozkladu. Vše se stalo problematickým. Jak se to v takových stavech děje vždy, tlačí se nevědomé obsahy na hranice vědomí s cílem kompenzovat jeho nouzi. Stojí proto zato pečlivě sledovat všechny hraniční jevy, jakkoli temné se mohou zdát, aby v nich byly nalezeny zárodky možných nových řádů.