A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.