C.G. Jung: Trending quotes

“A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.”

“Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.”

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

“The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on
Our SOULS.”

“Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”

“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted…”

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”

“Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!”

“This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

“It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.”

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”

“We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam.”

“[T]here are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“A more or less superficial layer of the unconscious is undoubtedly personal. I call it the "personal unconscious."”