Carl Jung

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

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.

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

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.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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

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.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

If there is anything that 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.