Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

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.

Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing.