Carl Jung Quotes

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

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

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

All neurotics seek the religious

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.

I don't believe. I know.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

The sure path can only lead to death.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.