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.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We discover ourselves through others.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.