It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities .… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also… — 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 seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and… — 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
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity. — 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
