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

The sure path can only lead to death.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

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

I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.