“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.”
“No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.”
“Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.”
“Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!”
“Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.”
“If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death”
“The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.”
“Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.”
“I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”
“Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”
“One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.”
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.”
“I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.”
“I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!”
“It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.”
