The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

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 experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.