C.G. Jung Quotes
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.
It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.
When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.
Why wouldn't I be able to look at you? You're not my woman and I don't even have feelings for you. You really mean nothing to me now.
To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.
So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.
I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.
Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.
I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.
A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?
The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)
Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
