Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — 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