The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

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.

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.