The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

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

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.