Carl Jung
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Sayings by Carl Jung
We are not what we seem. We are much more.
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
The only way to escape the responsibility of your actions is to die.
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Life calls us to change, to grow, to transform.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality.
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.
I would rather be whole than good.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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.
What did you do in your childhood that you consider important?