The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.