Carl Gustav Jung

“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual becomes.”

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

“It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.”

“Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.”

“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...”

“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

“The true leader is always led.”

“What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?”

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

“Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.”

“An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

“Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

“There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.”

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

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

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

“Aquel que no ha pasado a traves del infierno de sus pasiones, no las ha superado nunca...”

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”

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

“The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“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. ”

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

“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.”

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

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

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”

“Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.”

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

“Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”