It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.