Quotes from Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

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

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

With a truly tragic delusion," Carl Jung noted, "these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

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

People don't have ideas. Ideas have people.

The fool is the precursor to the savior.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.