Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

— C.G. Jung

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt

— C.G. Jung

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

— C.G. Jung

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

— C.G. Jung

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. Furthermore, I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

— C.G. Jung

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

— C.G. Jung

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

— C.G. Jung

If it is true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition.

— C.G. Jung

If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general.

— C.G. Jung

If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

— C.G. Jung