C.G. Jung: Trending quotes (page 7)

“His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.”

“We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.”

“Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious”

“Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”

“The sure path can only lead to death.”

“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

“Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”

“Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.”

“We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.”

“Creative power is mightier than its possessor.”

“For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.”

“When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.”

“Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.”

“Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.”

“I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.”

“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force”

“In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.”

“I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”