If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.