Carl Jung Quotes And Sayings

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.

As Far As We Can Discern, The Sole Purpose Of Human Existence Is To Kindle A Light In The Darkness Of Mere Being.

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.

Who Has Fully Realized That History Is Not Contained In Thick Books But Lives In Our Very Blood?

Everything That Irritates Us About Others Can Lead Us To An Understanding Of Ourselves.

Dreams Are The Guiding Words Of The Soul. Why Should I Henceforth Not Love My Dreams And Not Make Their Riddling Images Into Objects Of My Daily Consideration?

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.

Follow That Will And That Way Which Experience Confirms To Be Your Own.

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.

The Christ-symbol Is Of The Greatest Importance For Psychology In So Far As It Is Perhaps The Most Highly Developed And Differentiated Symbol Of The Self, Apart From The Figure Of The Buddha.

Show Me A Sane Man And I Will Cure Him For You.

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.

Understanding Does Not Cure Evil, But It Is A Definite Help, Inasmuch As One Can Cope With A Comprehensible Darkness.

Shrinking Away From Death Is Something Unhealthy And Abnormal Which Robs The Second Half Of Life Of Its Purpose.

The Debt We Owe To The Play Of Imagination Is Incalculable.

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.

Who Looks Outside, Dreams; Who Looks Inside, Awakes.

If One Does Not Understand A Person, One Tends To Regard Him As A Fool.

All The Works Of Man Have Their Origin In Creative Fantasy. What Right Have We Then To Depreciate Imagination.

Man's Task Is To Become Conscious Of The Contents That Press Upward From The Unconscious.

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.

The Greatest And Most Important Problems Of Life Are All Fundamentally Insoluble. They Can Never Be Solved But Only Outgrown.

Through Pride We Are Ever Deceiving Ourselves. But Deep Down Below The Surface Of The Average Conscience A Still, Small Voice Says To Us, Something Is Out Of Tune.

We Shall Probably Get Nearest To The Truth If We Think Of The Conscious And Personal Psyche As Resting Upon The Broad Basis Of An Inherited And Universal Psychic Disposition Which Is As Such Unconscious, And That Our Personal Psyche Bears The Same Relation To The Collective Psyche As The Individual To Society.

The Meeting Of Two Personalities Is Like The Contact Of Two Chemical Substances: If There Is Any Reaction, Both Are Transformed.