C.G. Jung Quotes
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious
Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.
How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.
