Carl Jung
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jungwas a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 July 1875
CityKesswil, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
You never know what you have till you've lost it.
I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.
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 capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.