Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

About Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung ( YUUNG; Swiss Standard German: [ˈkarl ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of...

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

—Carl Jung

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

—Carl Jung

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

—Carl Jung

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

—Carl Jung

Science… is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

—Carl Jung

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I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

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Zen is like chemotherapy for me. It's brutal medicine that makes you go bald, but it beats the alternative.

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Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. . . . The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.