Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself

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 cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Today as never before it is important that human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking withing them. It is unfortunately only too real, which is why psychology must insist on the...

At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don’t worry about my wanderings in...

How indeed? He copes, like everybody else, as well as he can, that’s all. And it’s usually deplorably enough.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the Church as the exclusive and divinely sanctioned earthly instrument of man’s redemption. The East (India), however,...

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents

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.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

…my evenings are taken up very largely with astrology, I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology

The child who became the world-renowned psychologist C.G. Jung was christened Karl Gustav II Jung.

I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know. The na ”,ve person does not appreciate what an insult it is to talk to one’s fellows about anything...

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Good advice”” is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so littleeffect……

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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.

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

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give himothers in return.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health

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

Thank God I’m Jung and not a Jungian.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it...

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking

The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.

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...

The creative mind plays with the object it loves

Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word...

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does...

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

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.

I began to blame the philosophers for rattling away when experience was lacking, and holding their tongues when they ought to have been answering with facts. In this respect they all seemed like watered-down theologians.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then...

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little.

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

God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or...

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.