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

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.