My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious… — 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
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
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an… — 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 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