1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

For the moment, I’m just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer.

People cannot stand too much Reality.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.