C.G. Jung Quotes

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

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.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

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.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

The gods have become our diseases.

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.

My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Na hranicích logiky sice končí věda, ne však příroda, která vzkvétá i tam, kam ještě žádná teorie nepronikla.

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

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
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