Carl Jung Quotes
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
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You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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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.'
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.