1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.

The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

...in the end, all I want is to be with him. It's the only way my life feels complete.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."