Marie-Louise von Franz

“My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way,…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?

— Marie-Louise von Franz

In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

“Jung said that to be in a situation where there is no way out or to be in a conflict where there…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

“Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

“The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

“We always tend to keep within ourselves threshold reactions such as a little doubt, or a little impulse not to do something.…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

“If you think the anima as being "nothing but" what you know about her, you have not the receptiveness of a listening…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

“Az óriások emócióval és affektussal való összekapcsolása a gyakorlatban abból a tényből látható, hogy akin elhatalmasodnak az érzelmek, az mindig túlozni kezd:…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

“It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

“Practically, it is most helpful when one wants to find out the type to ask, what is the greatest cross for the…

— Marie-Louise von Franz