The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.
The psyche is a self-regulating system that maintains itself in equilibrium as the body does.
The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.
Obviously, the problem of the shadow plays a great role in all political conflicts. If the man who had this dream had not been sensible about his shadow problem, he could easily have identified the de...
Most people confuse self-knowledge with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone
Let man but accumulate his materials of destruction and the devil within him will soon be unable to resist putting them to their fated use.
In other words, our conscious representations are sometimes ordered (or arranged in a pattern) before they have become conscious to us. The 18th-century German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss gives...
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Аз различавам чувството от афекта, въпреки че преходът към афекта е плавен, тъй като всяко чувство, когато достигне известна сила, задейства телесни инервации, а това се превръща в афект.
Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; he enthrals and overpowers...he transmutes our personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, and evokes in us all those beneficent fo...
We must not underestimate the devastating effect of getting lost in the chaos, even if we know that it is the 'sine qua non' of any regeneration of the spirit and the personality.
The spirit of the depths even taught me to consider my action and my decision as dependent on dreams. Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language. One...
The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think.
The image of the world is half the world.
Slavery and rebellion are inseparable correlates. Hence, rivalry for power and exaggerated distrust pervade the entire organism from top to bottom.
Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.
I should give myself completely into your hands—but who are you? I do not trust you. Not once to trust, is that my love for you, my joy in you? Do I not trust every valiant man, and not you, my soul?...
I indignantly answered, Do you call light what we men call the worst darkness? Do you call day night?To this my soul spoke a word that roused my anger, My light is not of this world.I cried, I know of...
I am accused of mysticism. I do not, however, hold myself responsible for the fact that man has, everywhere and always, spontaneously developed religious forms of expression, and that the human psyche...
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our...