You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

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

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence.

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.