Quotes from Carl Jung

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

No concept is a carrier of life.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.