Quotes from Carl Jung
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
- Carl Jung
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
- Carl Jung
So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.
- 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
Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.
- Carl Jung
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
- Carl Jung
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- 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.
- Carl Jung
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.
- Carl Jung
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. (on being 36 yrs old)
- Carl Jung
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.
- Carl Jung
And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.
- Carl Jung