Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly – if we take the boat with us and turn it over and over – something almost always comes out of it.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.