Quotes from Carl Jung

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

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.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

Only the wounded physician heals.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

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

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

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

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

The healthy man does not torture others.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

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.