I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.