Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer. Carl Jung enlightenmentdarknesswish Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings. Carl Jung individuationwrappingself One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. Carl Jung functionspiritualpeople I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished. Carl Jung karmafatechildren Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power. Carl Jung responsibilitychristianbeautiful Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth. Carl Jung doehomeworld I would rather be whole than good. Carl Jung whole Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. Carl Jung mythindividualdoe While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego. Carl Jung egohealthhealing 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. Carl Jung creativityimaginationplay The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth. Carl Jung intellectjudgmenthalf The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. Carl Jung psychologyunionsbody 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 importantminddream 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 truthmistakemen Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. Carl Jung yieldselfsea Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil. Carl Jung devil If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung understandingstupidleadership The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life. Carl Jung artistspringgiving The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men. Carl Jung creativeinspirationalmen All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. Carl Jung most-powerfulpowerfulideas
