"When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning..." - Quote by Carl Jung
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
More by Carl Jung
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.”
“The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.”
“...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.”
More on Purpose
“If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.”
“I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.”
“As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.”
More on Meaning
“When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.”
“What's a victory when its hollow?”
“The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.”