C.G. Jung

Quotes

• “If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and disc...”
• “Is that which science calls the “psyche” not merely a question-mark arbitrarily confined within the skull, but rather a ...”
• “The psyche’s attachment to the brain, i.e., its space-time limitation, is no longer as self-evident and incontrovertible...”
• “Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them...”
• “The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the...”
• “In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great t...”
• “I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no r...”
• “It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be underst...”
• “I myself recently dreamed that a UFO came speeding towards me which turned out to be the lens of a magic lantern whose p...”
• “The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled...”
• “The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is...”
• “If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in t...”
• “Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office i...”
• “There is no rule that is true under all circumstances, for this is the real and not a statistical world. Because the sta...”
• “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facin...”
• “The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am onl...”
• “We are still living in a wonderful new world where man thinks himself astonishingly new and "modern." This is unmistakab...”
• “Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but a...”
• “But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish...”
• “We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that...”
• “That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No n...”
• “The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats...”
• “If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empiri...”
• “I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ”—Psychiatrist Dr. Car...”
• “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness ...”
• “The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is on...”
• “We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to en...”
• “As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparen...”
• “The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather...”
• “I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in ...”
• “When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-heade...”
• “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedur...”
• “To be quite accurate, human nature is simply what it is; it has its dark and its light sides. The sum of all colours is ...”
• “The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformat...”
• “People think you have only to ‘tell’ a person that he ‘ought’ to do something in order to put him on the right track. Bu...”
• “If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in th...”
• “To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly...”
• “What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate con...”
• “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small ...”
• “Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms o...”
• “If you go to thinking take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinki...”
• “I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once...”
• “In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten w...”
• “Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which “similar” things coincide, without there being...”
• “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived ...”
• “The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.Carl JungSwiss psychologi...”
• “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, ...”
• “...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projecti...”
• “In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature...”
• “Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.”