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

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

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.