28 Quotes by Marie-Louise von Franz

The little open door of each individual’s inferior function is what contributes to the sum of collective evil in the world.

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

As soon as we notice that certain types of events ‘like’ to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a ‘science’ of meaningful coincidences.

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, ‘Oh, this is wonderful,’ may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs...

The fourth function is always life’s great problem:.

Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.

Number... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.