Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.
~ Carl Jung
Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.
The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods.
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is so will be his ultimate truth.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. 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.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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.
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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.
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
