Quotes By Carl Jung

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

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.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.