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
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.
If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.
My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.