1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.

And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the people and the places you allowed yourself to care about--but guess what, Jennika--that's no way to live. As much as it hurts to lose something you love, there's much greater joy in getting to experience it for as long as it lasts.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

All neurotics seek the religious

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.