Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

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.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

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

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.