660 Quotes by C.G. Jung

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

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

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

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return...

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one’s own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.