C.G. Jung

“Image is psyche.”

— C.G. Jung

“One book opens another.”

— C.G. Jung

“Fascination arises when the unconscious has been moved.”

— C.G. Jung

“Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.”

— C.G. Jung

“One cannot live from anything except what one is.”

— C.G. Jung

“The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

— C.G. Jung

“… the paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions...”

— C.G. Jung

“Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?”

— C.G. Jung

“God is not dead. Now, as ever, he liveth.”

— C.G. Jung

“Before him exist neither question nor answer.”

— C.G. Jung

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves”

— C.G. Jung

“Toute passe–yesterday’s truth is to-day’s deception, and yesterday’s false inference may be to-morrow’s revelation.”

— C.G. Jung

“The hero who clings to the mother is the dragon, and when the hero is reborn from the mother he becomes the…

— C.G. Jung

“Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to…

— C.G. Jung

“The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure.”

— C.G. Jung

“For underlying all philosophies and all religions are the facts of the human soul, which may ultimately be the arbiters of truth…

— C.G. Jung

“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.”

— C.G. Jung

“If You Pay Close Attention, You will See that the Most Masculine Man has a Feminine Soul, and the Most Feminine Woman…

— C.G. Jung

“When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we…

— C.G. Jung

“An ethical fraternity, with its mythical Nothing, not infused by any archaic-infantile driving force, is a pure vacuum and can never evoke…

— C.G. Jung

“For every manifest case of insanity there are, in my estimation, at least ten latent cases who seldom get to the point…

— C.G. Jung

“For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses,…

— C.G. Jung

“The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be,…

— C.G. Jung

“But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the…

— C.G. Jung

“Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is or has meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that…

— C.G. Jung

“Communion gives us warmth. Singleness gives us light. At immeasurable distance stands one single star at the zenith. This star is the…

— C.G. Jung

“On the contrary, every civilized human being, however high his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of…

— C.G. Jung

“The difference between most people and myself is that for me the "dividing walls" are transparent. That is my peculiarity. Others find…

— C.G. Jung

“I always wonder about people who go to Rome as they might go, for example, to Paris or to London. Certainly Rome…

— C.G. Jung

“It is under all circumstances an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, otherwise the repressed elements will only crop…

— C.G. Jung

“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That…

— C.G. Jung

“Civilized life today demands concentrated, directed conscious functioning, and this entails the risk of a considerable dissociation from the unconscious. The further…

— C.G. Jung

“What is it, in the end, that induces a man to go his own way and to rise out of unconscious identity…

— C.G. Jung

“After all, there was nothing preposterous and world-shaking in the idea that there might be events which overstepped the limited categories of…

— C.G. Jung

“The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.”

— C.G. Jung

“[The figure of the Trickster] is the collective shadow.”

— C.G. Jung

“You do not have an inferior function, it has you.”

— C.G. Jung

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”

— C.G. Jung

“Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.”

— C.G. Jung

“Be glad that you can recognize [your madness], for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.”

— C.G. Jung