Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

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