1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow. And if such a person wants to be cured it is necessary to find a way in which his conscious personality and his shadow can live together.

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.