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
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also… — 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
I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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
I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not… — 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