One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
Carl JungThe individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
Carl JungThe unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."
Carl JungThoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of lifeโs morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.
Carl JungArt is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher senseโ he is "collective man"โ one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.
Carl Jung