The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.

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.