Carl Jung
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jungwas a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 July 1875
CityKesswil, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.
In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'
You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.
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.
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.
What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.
You always become the thing you fight the most.
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.
Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.
Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.