Carl Jung Quotes
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.
Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy - the mass never frees itself.
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.
The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and ... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it—I don't need to believe it.
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.