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St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

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

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

Anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

It is not for us ... to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

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.

Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon ... They become our legendary heroes.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

Dream the dream onward.

Summoned or not, the god will come.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound ... Everything is mediated through the mind.

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 .

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding ... as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Nothing is possible without love.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

I do not believe ... I know.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego ...

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.