1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Trust me, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules. And if you don't know the rules, someone's bound to get hurt.

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos- the right moment- for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. ... If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.