Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
Carl JungMan's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.
Carl JungThe afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
Carl JungThe greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl JungPersonality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.
Carl Jung