Quotes from Carl Jung

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

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

That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

All neurotics seek the religious

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

I do not believe...I know.