Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

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.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.