A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience..

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this visi….

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-….

The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of e….

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellec….

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its charact….

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it..

I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in m….

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

I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but….

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men..

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself..

Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And….

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribu….

Everyone is in love with his own ideas.

There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the sha….

Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They say it is light en….

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..

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt..

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate..

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are ….