10 Quotes by Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you,
but from being unable to communicate the things that seem
important to you.
• To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
• The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego,
the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
• If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be
fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief
emotion will be gratitude.
• What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is
the life which the parents have not lived.
• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will
do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their
own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining
figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
• A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive
way, and is, in addition, fooled by all the illusions that arise when
he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming
to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbor.
• The artist is not a person endowed with free will, who seeks his
own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through
him. As a human being, he may have moods, and a will, and
personal aims, but as an artist, he is "man" in a higher sense:
He is "collective man," a vehicle and molder of the unconscious
psychic life of mankind.
• I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
