If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.