Carl Jung Quotes
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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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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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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 Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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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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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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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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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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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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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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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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You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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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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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?