The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it. Carl Jung More Quotes by Carl Jung More Quotes From Carl Jung The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes. Carl Jung legendary creative hero Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Jung business truth knowledge The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness. Carl Jung bitterness gratitude sadness The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. Carl Jung disposition individual childhood The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels. Carl Jung conflict angel half Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. Carl Jung covering sentimental brutality The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal. Carl Jung unique essence self I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?. Carl Jung tree animal men If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy. Carl Jung fantasy simplicity development But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence? Carl Jung understanding dark world Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator. Carl Jung educational suffering children Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it. Carl Jung dream memories past God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known. Carl Jung fallen want heart I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being. Carl Jung foundation existence born Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. Carl Jung epidemics psychics hippie The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious. Carl Jung stars taken real Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche. Carl Jung independence space meaningful The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. Carl Jung incredibles unexpected world Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror Carl Jung refuge psychology terror The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life. Carl Jung failure responsibility life
