Quotes from Carl Jung

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

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.

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.