“"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
More from Carl Jung on Philosophy
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
“As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.”
“...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection.”
“The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual”
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature.”
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“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”
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Buddha
13 quotes“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
Joseph Conrad
13 quotes“The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.”