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But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.
Bollingen Tower inscriptions (1950)
Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. It was easy for them to laugh, since I had to do strange things.
The Red Book: Liber Novus (2009)
We have not yet clearly grasped the fact that Western Theosophy is an amateurish imitation of the East.
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
The Undiscovered Self (1958)
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
The Undiscovered Self (1958)
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
The Integration of the Personality (1939)
The Greek words daimon and daimonion express a determining power which comes upon man from outside, like providence or fate, though the ethical decision is left to man.
Carl Gustav Jung in Aion (1968)
For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype (1938)
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."
Every archetype is capable of endless development and differentiation.
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a "metamorphosis of the gods," i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols.
The Undiscovered Self (1958)
No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep.
During an interview with H. R. Knickerbocker (1939)
Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science.
The Undiscovered Self (1958)
I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself.
Bollingen Tower inscriptions (1950)
Aion is a child at play, gambling; a child's is the kingship. Telesphorus traverses the dark places of the world, like a star flashing from the deep, leading the way to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams.
Bollingen Tower inscriptions (1950)