To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

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 difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own