Carl Jung

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

— Carl Jung

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle…

— Carl Jung

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole,…

— Carl Jung

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

— Carl Jung

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men…

— Carl Jung

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing…

— Carl Jung

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in…

— Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

— Carl Jung

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the…

— Carl Jung

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous.…

— Carl Jung

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated…

— Carl Jung

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will…

— Carl Jung

Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our…

— Carl Jung

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of…

— Carl Jung

“The infantile dream-state of the mass man is so unrealistic that he never thinks to ask who is paying for this paradise.…

— Carl Jung

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.…

— Carl Jung

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

— Carl Jung

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill…

— Carl Jung

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's…

— Carl Jung

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about…

— Carl Jung

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

— Carl Jung

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality…

— Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their…

— Carl Jung

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

— Carl Jung

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out…

— Carl Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is…

— Carl Jung

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his…

— Carl Jung

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

— Carl Jung

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

— Carl Jung

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that,…

— Carl Jung

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious…

— Carl Jung

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

— Carl Jung

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There…

— Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the…

— Carl Jung

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

— Carl Jung

Even the happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were…

— Carl Jung

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than…

— Carl Jung

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

— Carl Jung

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

— Carl Jung

“One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.”

— Carl Jung