The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will… — 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 primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to… — Carl Jung Copy Share
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end… — Carl Jung Copy Share
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 at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology… — Carl Jung Copy Share
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