Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me...… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of… — 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