Carl Jung

Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for “the union of opposites through the middle path”, that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

Carl Jung

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

Carl Jung

Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.

Carl Jung

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

Carl Jung

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

Carl Jung

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

Carl Jung

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

Carl Jung

Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.

Carl Jung

Psychological type is nothing static – it changes in the course of life.

Carl Jung

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Carl Jung