Quotes from C.G. Jung

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature.

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

The gods have become our diseases.

What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams, Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. "—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

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

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. —address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.