Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important