An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

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. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.