Carl Jung

The only purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

The experience of the Self is always a defeat for the ego.

We are not born in a vacuum. We are born into a collective unconscious.

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

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I know.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it is to be complete, be complemented by an aesthetic or ethical act of recognition.

The less we understand of what our father has bequeathed to us, the more we are bound to be oppressed by it.

The true man is a child who has learned how to play.

The highest goal of psychotherapy is to bring the individual into a state of wholeness.

The human soul is not a tabula rasa, but a complex, pre-formed structure.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that cosmic primal night that was psyche long before there was any ego consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how much our ego consciousness may extend.

The individuation process is the conscious realization of one's unique psychological being, including both conscious and unconscious elements.

The experience of the numinous is the essential characteristic of all genuine religious experience.

The anima and animus are archetypal images of the opposite sex within the psyche of an individual.

The symbol is the best possible expression for a relatively unknown fact.

The neurotic is a person who has lost his way and is trying to find it again.

The ego is a complex of ideas which constitutes the center of the field of consciousness and, as such, appears to possess a high degree of continuity and identity.

The shadow is that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors.

The archetype is a structural element of the human psyche.

The individuation process is a process of psychological differentiation, having for its goal the development of the individual personality as a totality.