1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

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

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?