“"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate… — 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
The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational… — 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
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way… — 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
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... It… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this… — 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… — 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
When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Persona, the mask or image we present to the world. Designed to make a particular impression on others, while concealing our true… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it. — 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