Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.