The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.