Carl Jung Quotes
We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.
Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.
If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.
The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.
Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.
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 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.
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.
