Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

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