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CARL JUNG QUOTES

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

CARL JUNG, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

CARL JUNG, On the Psychology of the Unconsciousness

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

CARL JUNG, Collected Works, vol. 11

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

CARL JUNG, Marriage as a Psychological Relationship

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

CARL JUNG, Man and His Symbols

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

CARL JUNG, "Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious"

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

CARL JUNG, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

CARL JUNG, The Transcendent Function

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

CARL JUNG, Factors Determining Human Behavior

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throughout the world.

CARL JUNG, "New Paths in Psychology"

Without freedom there can be no morality.

CARL JUNG, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology