Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.