1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

Es wäre lächerliche und ungerechtfertigte Selbstüberhebung, wenn wir annehmen wollten, wir seien energischer oder intelligenter als das Altertum - unser Wissensstoff hat zugenommen, nicht aber die Intelligenz. Darum sind wir neuen Ideen gegenüber gerade so borniert und unfähig wie die Menschen in den dunklesten Zeiten des Altertums. An Wissen sind wir reich geworden, nicht aber an Weisheit.

[...] the really complex and unfamiliar part of the human mind, from which symbols are produced, is still virtually unexplored. It seems almost incredible that though we receive signals from it every night, deciphering these communications seems too tedious for any but a very few people to be bothered with. Man's greatest instrument, his psyche, is little thought of, and it is often directly mistrusted and despised. "It's only psychological" too often means: It is nothing.

An evil person lurks inside all of us, and onlyif we recognize that fact can we hope totame them [sic].

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Каждый римлянин был окружен рабами. Раб и его психология наводнили древнюю Италию, и каждый римлянин внутренне — и, разумеется, непреднамеренно — становился рабом. Ибо он, постоянно живший в атмосфере рабов, заражался через бессознательное их психологией. Никто не в силах защитить себя от такого влияния.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

Знать тьму внутри себя — лучший способ справиться с тьмой в других.

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved. They must be outgrown.