Carl Jung Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Carl Jung
Carl Jung Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
Anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.
If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.
It is not for us ... to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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.
I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.
We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon ... They become our legendary heroes.
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.
Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived
It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound ... Everything is mediated through the mind.
No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep .
Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding ... as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.