C.G. Jung Quotes

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

All neurotics seek the religious

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.