Quotes from Carl Jung

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror.

Called or not, God is always there.

Explore daily the will of God.

I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.