"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

"I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it."

"The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out."

"Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power."

"The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

"They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers."

"The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results."

"Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?"

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

"Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively."

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."

"As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge."

"I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!"

"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth."

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."

"To be quite accurate, human nature is simply what it is; it has its dark and its light sides. The sum of all colours is grey - light on a dark background or dark on light."

"In each of us there is another whom we do not know.Carl Jungfound in David Eagleman's book: Incognito."

"If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin."

"A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music."

"There is no rule that is true under all circumstances, for this is the real and not a statistical world. Because the statistical method shows only the average aspects, it creates an artificial and predominantly conceptual picture of reality."

"Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt."

"At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing in the Tower that has not grown into its own form over the decades, nothing with which I am not linked. Here everything has its history, and mine; here is space for the spaceless kingdom of the world's and the psyche's hinterland."

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

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

"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."

"The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs."

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."

"The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul."

"In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature."

"But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites, hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind."

"If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death."

"The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. The creative urge lives and grows in him like a tree in the earth from which it draws its nourishment."

"Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us."

"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself."

"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."

"The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it."

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals."

"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."

"The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man."

"The sight of a child will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons - longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona."

"Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge."

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."