Carl Jung Doe Quotations

Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

The healthy man does not torture others.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

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.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.