Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 26, 1875 Death: June 6, 1961
...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great diff….
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands..
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors..
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return..
So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those ….
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious..
Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrep….
Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts..
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent..
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we ….
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that ….
Hitler is a medicine man type of leader..
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 ind….
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlik….
Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference..
We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves..
In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!.
Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribabl….
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood..
Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be ….
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent..