C.G. Jung Quotes

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

...go in the direction your head is pointed in.

I feel perhaps my heart is still in China.

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

I always wanted to be a writer.

If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.

As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Where your fear is, there is your task.

I'm going to go where my heart takes me, even if it's a messy road.

They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.

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

My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks

In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.

...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection.

Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

People think you have only to ‘tell’ a person that he ‘ought’ to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ”—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

I was on the far side of the dream.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

You do not have an inferior function, it has you.

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.Carl JungSwiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.Carl Jungfound in David Eagleman's book: Incognito

The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.

What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams, Carl Jung

Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations...

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)

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.

If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love

When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which “similar” things coincide, without there being any apparent cause.