1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.

We don't always get the journey we want. But we always get the journey we need.

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

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

Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

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.

Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.