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 individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

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

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.