Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology and became one of the most influential interpreters of the spiritual dimension of the human mind in the twentieth century. Born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, he was Sigmund Freud's most famous collaborator and then his most consequential dissenter, breaking with Freud in 1913 over the role of the spiritual in the unconscious. His concepts — the collective unconscious, archetypes, individuation, the shadow, the anima and animus, synchronicity — became foundational vocabulary for the contemplative-psychological turn of the late twentieth century. His Red Book, published posthumously in 2009, revealed a contemplative practitioner of extraordinary depth. He died in 1961 in Küsnacht; his Bollingen Tower remains a place of pilgrimage for serious students of his work.
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Quotes by Carl Jung
104 quotes“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine, or idealism.”
“I would rather be whole than good.”
“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
“The patient is not a problem to be solved but a soul to be encountered.”
“The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth.”
“The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
“The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
“Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.”
“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth.”
“The serious problems in life are never fully solved. If they should appear to be so, it is a sure sign that something has been lost.”
“What is the right way of life? There is no single answer.”
“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”
“There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.”
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.”
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