1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.

The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.