C. G. Jung Quotes

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws. Within us is the way, the truth, and the life.

To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being and does not rise to personality, he has failed to realize his life's meaning. Fortunately,

Only in the first hour of the night can I become human, while the male dove is busy with the twelve dead.'
Black Book 2

My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We are always human and we should never forget the burden of being only human

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Nothing is more vulnerable and ephemeral than scientific theories, which are mere tools and not everlasting truths.

Jung's search for the soul, then, stands at one with the search for appropriately dialogical and differentiated language.

... the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

If You Pay Close Attention, You will See that the Most Masculine Man has a Feminine Soul, and the Most Feminine Woman has a Masculine Soul.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.

I forgot that you are also one of my friends, and have the first right to my

The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think.

Tibetan Book of the Dead

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate

...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection.

Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.

There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

what am I to do here?

In so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists.

If we are to do justice to the essence of the thing we call spirit, we should really speak of a "higher" consciousness rather than of the unconscious.

The future of mankind depends very much upon the recognition of the shadow.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

Good advice is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so little
effect ...

Be glad that you can recognize [your madness], for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
Carl Jung
found in David Eagleman's book: Incognito

When you say that the place of the soul is not, then it is not. But if you say that it is, then it is.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

The great Poetry that creates out of the soul of humankind is inaccurately explained if we reduce it to the personal

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Most people confuse "self-knowledge" with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone

Archetypal images decide the fate of man.

I have evidently taken on a completely monstrous form in which I can no longer recognize myself. It

I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks

In our civilized life, we have stripped so many ideas of their emotional energy, we do not really respond to them any more. We

Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

The dream gives a true picture of the subjective state, while the conscious mind denies that this state exists, or recognizes it only grudgingly.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

It is the face of his own evil shadow that grins at Western man from the other side of the Iron curtain.

Nobody is immune to a nationwide evil unless he is unshakably convinced of the danger of his own character being tainted by the same evil.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.

I must learn to love you.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

The golden apples drop from the same tree, whether they be gathered by an imbecile locksmith's apprentice or by a Schopenhauer.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

The rupture between faith and knowledge is a symptom of the split consciousness which is so characteristic of the mental disorder of our day.

Image is psyche.

In fact, the terrors that stem from our elaborate civilization may be far more threatening than those that primitive people attribute to demons. The

Explore daily the will of God.

To be normal is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful.

Before him exist neither question nor answer.

People cannot stand too much reality.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted ...

The psyche is a self-regulating system that maintains itself in equilibrium as the body does.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

Our suffering comes from our unlived life
the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.

Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.

Man, as we realize if we reflect for a moment, never perceives anything fully or comprehends anything completely.

Sentimentality is the supestructure erected upon brutality.

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

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

The energic value of a cause is never abolished by positing an arbitrary and rational goal: that is always a makeshift.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals

Let things happen.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It

Not everything I bring forth is written out of my head, but much of it comes from the heart also.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

The gods have become our diseases.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

God is not dead. Now, as ever, he liveth.

Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope.

Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

One book opens another.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The man who looks only outside and quails before the big battalions has no resource with which to combat the evidence of his senses and his reason.

Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes.

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

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.