It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche.