The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.

When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

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 self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.