The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (deformed).

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.

When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed