Carl Jung Quotes
My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.
There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.
Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.
Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.
Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.
If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.
New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.
Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
