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

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Invited or not, God is present.

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.