Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities .… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and...each step forward has been a most painful and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is. — Carl Jung Copy Share
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him… — Carl Jung Copy Share
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share
“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living… — Carl Jung Copy Share
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind. — Carl Jung Copy Share