From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.