Carl Jung

“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

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

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

“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”

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

“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.”

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”

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

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

“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 debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”

“Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?”

“Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.”

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”