"This is a play of repentance, power, revenge and fate that can also be seen as fantasy, dream, imagination, metaphor or magic."

"One can scarcely imagine the unspeakable change that was wrought in man’s emotional life when he took farewell from that almost wholly antique world."

"The figure of Christ, to us an entirely symbolical figure, is the interpretation of that old Osiris myth of Egypt."

"But one thing I will tell you: the exploration of the unconscious has in fact and in truth discovered the age-old, timeless way of initiation."

"The opus magnum had two aims: the rescue of the human soul and the salvation of the cosmos."

"The abstract nature of work in a technological age leaves the worker dissatisfied."

"Man today hungers and thirsts for a safe relationship to the psychic forces within himself."

"The psychic life-force, the libido, symbolizes itself in the sun or personifies itself in figures of heroes with solar attributes."

"Myth is certainly not an infantile phantasm, but one of the most important requisites of primitive life."

"The return to the simple life can be regarded as an unhoped-for piece of good fortune even though it demands considerable self-sacrifice and is not undertaken voluntarily."

"The tempo of America is being taken as a norm to which life should be directed."

"L'homme dit « moderne » est de tout temps solitaire."

"The sea is like music; it has all the dreams of the soul within itself and sounds them over."

"Jung has on various occasions referred to the myth of the "night sea journey" cited by Frobenius, which he named the "whale dragon myth"."

"His own world is a safe harbour, a carefully tended and walled-in garden, closed to the public and hidden from prying eyes."

"The individuation process, as a universal law of life, exhibits an archetypal pattern which remains more or less constant and regular."

"The "change of life" is .. the urge and possibility for further spiritual and psychic development."

"The archdemon of egoism leads us along the royal road to that ingathering which religious experience demands."

Interview 1957 / Face to face, 1959 / Des idées, des hommes, des oeuvres, 1987

"We are living in what the Greeks called the καιρός – the right time – for a “metamorphosis of the gods” ..."

"The achievement of personality means nothing less than the optimum development of the whole individual human being."

"La vie est un champ de bataille. Elle l’a toujours été et le restera toujours."

"It is a notorious fact that the morality of society as a whole is in inverse ratio to its size."

"The experience of the Middle Passage is not unlike awakening to find that one is alone on a pitching ship, with no port in sight. "