The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.
The true leader is always led.
Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.
A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.
People cannot stand too much Reality.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy – the mass never frees itself.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
So often among so-called “primitives” one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.
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?