If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself… — 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
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
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
I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically… — 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
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
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
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
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then! — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. — 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
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
The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 Image
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image