Quotes from Carl Jung

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

What we lack is intensity of life.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.