Without freedom there can be no morality.
CARL JUNG, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
CARL JUNG, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
CARL JUNG, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call "projected" -- this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind.
CARL JUNG, letter to B. V. Raman, Sep. 6, 1947
The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but rather the times which are measured or determined by arbitrarily named stellar positions. Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge.
CARL JUNG, letter to B. Baur, Jan. 29, 1934
Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.
CARL JUNG, Nietzsche's Zarathustra
The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
CARL JUNG, "Return to the Simple Life", DU, vol. 1
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
CARL JUNG, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
CARL JUNG, attributed, The Little Zen Companion
Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way.
CARL JUNG, attributed to Nietzsche, Man and His Symbols
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness -- that I myself am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?
CARL JUNG, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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.
CARL JUNG, C. G. Jung: Psychological Reflections
Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life.
CARL JUNG, The Red Book
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him--an irrational form which no other can outbid.
CARL JUNG, The Practice of Psychotherapy
Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.
CARL JUNG, Psychology of the Unconscious
