Explore Quotes by Carl Jung

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.