We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.