Quotes by Carl Gustav Jung

“Everyone is in love with his own ideas”

“An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.”

“At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, dont worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche.”

“Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.”

“The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.”

“You can take away a mans gods, but only to give himothers in return.”