Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.