Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

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

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.