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Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)
It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. ... No language exists that cannot be misused.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
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.
The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1934)
Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of.
The Psychology of the Child Archetype [Das göttliche Kind (1941)
Not only do I leave the door open for the Christian message, but I consider it of central importance for Western man.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
The most we can do is dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress.
The Psychology of the Child Archetype [Das göttliche Kind (1941)
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way.
The Undiscovered Self (1958)
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
Psychology and Alchemy (1944)
The shoe that fits one person pinches another.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. The numinosum is dangerous because it lures men to extremes, so that a modest truth is regarded as the truth and a minor mistake is equated with fatal error.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
The Undiscovered Self (1958)
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)