Top 837 Quotes & Sayings by Carl Jung - Page 2

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

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.

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.

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 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.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

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

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

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

We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.

God enters through the wound.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.