Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

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

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!