Explore Quotes by Carl Jung

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

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.

Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern._x000D__x000D_Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

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.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

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

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.