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
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist… — 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 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
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — 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