Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Summoned or not, the god will come.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.]

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

One must be able to let things happen.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

I don't believe. I know.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.