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.

A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.

The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself . . . We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we...

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and...

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent

In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less...

Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.

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,...

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among [those] in the second half of life-that is to say, over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding...

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

All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul.

One cannot live without inconsistency

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one ‘¦ All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside...

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers

Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the...