Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.