Carl Jung Quotes

There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover In the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.[Es bedurfte im Gegenteüe eines unverwüstlichen und allem Wirklichkeitssinn abholden phantastischen Optimismus, um z. B. im schmachvollen Tode Christi eben gerade das höchste Heil und die Erlösung der Welt zu erblicken.]

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves.[Die Erzeugung des Neuen besorgt nicht der Intellekt, sondern der Spieltrieb aus innerer Nötigung. Der schaffende Geist spielt mit den Objekten, die er liebt.]

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.[Man könnte das Theater vom psychoanalytischen Standpunkte aus unästhetischerweise als eine Anstalt für öffentliche Komplexbearbeitung bezeichnen.]

When we consider the infinite variety of dreams, it is difficult to conceive that there could ever be a method or a technical procedure which would lead to an infallible result. It is, indeed, a good thing that no valid method exists, for otherwise the meaning of the dream would be limited in advance and would lose precisely that virtue which makes dreams so valuable for therapeutic purposes – their ability to offer new points of view.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

To me dreams are a part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive, but expresses something as best it can.[Für mich sind Träume Natur, der keine Täuschungsabsicht innewohnt, sondern die etwas aussagt.]

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; oftentimes it grows turbid.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.