1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

Alcohol is the reduced form of spirit. Therefore, many people, lacking spirit, take to drink. They fill themselves with alcohol.

It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself.

‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one's best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one's own will and one's own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development.

The psychologist has come to see that nothing is achieved by telling, persuading, admonishing, giving good advice.

Non foras ire, in interiore homine habitat veritas' (Go not outside; truth dwells in the inner man).

Blind acceptance never leads to a solution; at best it leads only to a standstill and is paid for heavily in the next generation.

Historically, it is chiefly in times of physical, political, economic and spiritual distress that men’s eyes turn with anxious hope to the future, and when anticipations, utopias and apocalyptic visions multiply.