...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

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

I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.