When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.

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.