Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 26, 1875 Death: June 6, 1961
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand..
The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral eff….
The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective….
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers..
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole….
I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God..
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble..
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem..
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you..
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely..
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid ….
I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pat….
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fello….
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness..
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life..
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration..
Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow..
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part….
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repre….
Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the perso….
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. It is far be….