If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.” — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail? — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“Jung said that to be in a situation where there is no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individuation. It is meant to be a situation without solution; the unconscious wants the hopeless conflict in order to put ego consciousness up against the wall, so… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share
Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance. — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
“The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the way in… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
