A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

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."

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

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.