107 quotes
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it.
Paracelsus the Physician (1942)
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954)
We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
The more a man's life is shaped by the collective norms, the greater is his individual immorality.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious.
Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation (1921)
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and ... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world.
The Theory of Psychoanalysis (1913)
Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
Paracelsus the Physician (1942)
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1934)
Whereas the personal unconscious consists for the most part of "complexes", the content of the collective unconscious is made up essentially of "archetypes".
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1934)
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
General Aspects of Dream Psychology (1928)