Carl Jung Quotes

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.[Jede Form von Süchtigkeit ist von Übel, gleichgültig, ob es sich um Alkohol oder Morphium oder Idealismus handelt.]

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.[Der Neid den Menschen nicht schlafen läßt.]

Dreams are symbolic in order that they can not be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.[Die Träume sind symbolisch, damit man sie nicht versteht, damit der Wunsch, der dahinter als Traumquelle liegt, unverstanden bleibe.]

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by what he says.

But who, if it comes to that, has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Between the dreams of day and night there is not so great a difference.[Zwischen den Träumen des Tages und der Nacht der Unterschied nicht zu groß ist.]

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.[Soweit wir zu erkennen vermögen, ist es der einzige Sinn der menschlichen Existenz, ein Licht anzuzünden in der Finsternis des bloßen Seins.]

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination?

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.