Quotes from C G Jung Relating to a Metaphysical Perspective

Last Updated 7 April 1999

The Soul

"Were it not a fact of experience that supreme values reside in the soul, psychology would not interest me in the least, for the soul would then be nothing but a miserable vapor. I know, however, from hundredfold experience that it is nothing of the sort, but on the contrary contains the equivalents of everything that has been formulated in dogma and a good deal more, which is just what enables it to be an eye destined to behold the light. This requires limitless range and unfathomable depth of vision. I have been accused of deifying the soul. Not I but God Himself deified it."

Psychology and Alchemy (1944) pg. 14

Life and Spirit

"Life is the touchstone for the truth of spirit.
Spirit that drags man away from life, seeking fulfillment only in itself, is a false spirit - though man is to blame, since he can choose whether he will give himself up to this spirit or not.

Life and Spirit are two great powers or necessities between which man is placed.
Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest dev