Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Jung

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
Carl Jung

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl Jung

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Jung

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Jung