1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.

Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.