Carl Jung

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The individual is the only reality.

We should not pretend to understand the world not by our reason, but by our heart.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

The way to do is to be.

What you resist, persists.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

The psyche is the only phenomenon that is given to us immediately, and in such a way that we cannot even think of its being absent.

I am convinced that the unconscious needs to express itself in a symbolic way, and that it is the purpose of the dream to do just that.

The archetype is a tendency to form such representations of a motif - representations that can vary a great deal in detail without losing their basic pattern.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in passing from a primitive, naïve Christianity to a highly doubtful and perhaps even more naïve state of uncertainty.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes.

My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious.

The spirit of the depths opened my eyes and I caught a glimpse of the inner things, myself and the others.

I took the hint and began to write. I wrote for fifteen years without stopping.

The years when I was pursuing my inner images were the most important in my life.

I had to let go of all theory, of all artistic inspiration, and follow the call of the unconscious.

The alchemists had a phrase for this: 'visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultum lapidem.'