C.G. Jung Quotes: 14

• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

• 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.

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

• Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

• How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

• 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.

• With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

• The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

• The gods have become our diseases.

• The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS.

• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

• 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.

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