Carl Jung Quotes

“Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?”

“We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.”

“Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.”

“A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.”

“Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.”

“We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.”

“Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.”

“Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide”

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

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

“Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.”

“Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.”

“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.”

“I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.”

“We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.”

“Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror”

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.”

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole”

“Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.”

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

“The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.”

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

“Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know.”

“In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.”

“Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.”