The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

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