The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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.
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
