Explore Quotes by Carl Jung

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most _x000D_ we can hope for is excellence.

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.