1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

As a consequence there are many people who becomeneurotic because they are only normal, as there arepeople who are neurotic because they cannot becomenormal. For the former the very thought that you wantto educate them to normality is a nightmare; theirdeepest need is really to be able to lead "abnormal"lives.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.

As soon as man was capable of conceiving of the idea of sin, he had recourse to psychic concealment.

CG Jung:Thoughts grow in me like a forest, populated by many different animals. But man is domineering in his thinking, and therefore he kills the pleasure of the forest and that of the wild animals. Man is violent in his desire, and he himself becomes a darker forest and a sickened forest animal. Just as I have freedom in the world, I also have freedom in my thoughts. Freedom is conditional.

Whoever looks from inside knows that everything is new.