Carl Jung

Carl Jung

"No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles."
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"No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles."
Carl Jung Symbols of Transformation
"We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."
Carl Jung
"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."
Carl Jung
"‎...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
Carl Jung
"An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you."
Carl Jung
"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."
Carl Jung
"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
Carl Jung
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
Carl Jung
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
Carl Jung
"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Carl Jung
"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."
Carl Jung
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
Carl Jung
"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
Carl Jung
"Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health."
Carl Jung
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
Carl Jung
"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own."
Carl Jung
"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
Carl Jung
"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
Carl Jung
"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."
Carl Jung
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
Carl Jung
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