We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.
The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.
When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
Words are animals, alive with a will of their own.
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.
The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us.
Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.
Psychological type is nothing static – it changes in the course of life.
Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.
Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail.