Carl Jung Quotes
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It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
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We know as little of a supreme being as of Matter. But there is as little doubt of the existence of a supreme being as of Matter. The world beyond is reality, and experiential fact. We only don't understand it.
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I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
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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.
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This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
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The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
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The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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Reason alone does not suffice.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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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.