The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and...each step forward has been a most painful and… — 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
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
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were… — 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 psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. — 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
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of… — 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
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as… — 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
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
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
The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question… — 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
