The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. — 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
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine… — 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 fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing ... He must obey his own law,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities. — 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
![“The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.” quote by Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/251/carl-jung-274_defined_the-self-is-defined-psychologically-as-t_7148.jpg)
