There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.