No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — 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
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house… — 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
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond… — 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
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest… — 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
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And… — 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
