Carl Jung

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

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

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.