Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as… — 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
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 unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment… — 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
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,… — 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
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the… — 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
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
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a… — 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
Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter… — 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
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