C.G. Jung
68 quotes
Biography
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of archetypes.
"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."
"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."
"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"
"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."
"With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing."
"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."
"The gods have become our diseases."
"The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS."
"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."
"Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."
"Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor."
"But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from the shallow-side has a destructive effect. The horror which we feel for Freudian interpretations is entirely due to our own barbaric or childish naivete, which believes that there can be heights without corresponding depths, and which blinds us to the really "final" truth that, when carried to extremes, opposites meet."
"Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next."
"Where your fear is,there is your task."
"We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."
"I myself recently dreamed that a UFO came speeding towards me which turned out to be the lens of a magic lantern whose projected image was myself; this suggested to me that I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi."
"My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart."
"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."
"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."
"If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death"
"I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks"
"In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature."
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."