Carl Jung

We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt…

— Carl Jung

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable…

— Carl Jung

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal…

— Carl Jung

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

— Carl Jung

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since…

— Carl Jung

But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the…

— Carl Jung

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all…

— Carl Jung

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre…

— Carl Jung

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if…

— Carl Jung

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own…

— Carl Jung

To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all…

— Carl Jung

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no…

— Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution,…

— Carl Jung

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is…

— Carl Jung

While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads…

— Carl Jung

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by…

— Carl Jung

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will…

— Carl Jung

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function…

— Carl Jung

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must…

— Carl Jung

Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong…

— Carl Jung

The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in…

— Carl Jung

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid…

— Carl Jung

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality…

— Carl Jung

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism,…

— Carl Jung

A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control…

— Carl Jung

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter…

— Carl Jung

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the…

— Carl Jung

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing…

— Carl Jung

Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the…

— Carl Jung

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided…

— Carl Jung

“In the interview, he gave an example of a man who falls head over heels in love, then later in life regrets…

— Carl Jung

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest…

— Carl Jung

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain."…

— Carl Jung

There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to…

— Carl Jung

“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess…

— Carl Jung

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is…

— Carl Jung

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and…

— Carl Jung

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.…

— Carl Jung

For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas…

— Carl Jung

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we…

— Carl Jung