Even the happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but 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
Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything. — 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
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
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
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place… — 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
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
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
Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only… — 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
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must… — 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
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