Carl Jung

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

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

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

“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.”

“Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.”

“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.”

“Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.”

“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.”

“The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.”

“Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”

“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”

“A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”

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

“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.”

“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”

“The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.”

“For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.”

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”