“"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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
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
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
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. — 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
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
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
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
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 the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the… — 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
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
The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are… — 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
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
With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the… — 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
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
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
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
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere… — 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
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. — 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
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
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. — 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
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
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
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
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share
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
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share
“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
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
