Carl Jung

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

Carl Jung

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Carl Jung

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

Carl Jung

A sense of a wider meaning to one’s existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

Carl Jung

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Carl Jung

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

Carl Jung

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

Carl Jung

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

Carl Jung

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

Carl Jung

All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

Carl Jung