Dawn is born at midnight.

What we lack is intensity of life.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!

I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.

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.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.