Carl Jung Quotes
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.
Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.
Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.
My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.
Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.
When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.
Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.
It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.
People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.
For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.
We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws.
Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.
And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.
...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.
I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.
In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.
I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.
I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."
