Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason. - Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Jung
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it. - Carl Jung
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. - Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. - Carl Jung
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. - Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. - Carl Jung
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love. - Carl Jung
Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light. - Carl Jung
With a truly tragic delusion, these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing. - Carl Jung
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. - Carl Jung
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. - Carl Jung
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times. - Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. - Carl Jung
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted. - Carl Jung
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon. - Carl Jung
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. - Carl Jung
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