Create Yours

Top 25 Marie-Louise von Franz Quotes (2026 Update)

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”

1. “It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “Dreams are like letters from God. Isn’t it time you answered your mail?”

2. “Dreams are like letters from God. Isn’t it time you answered your mail?”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.”

3. “Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.”

4. “We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “You see, in the image of Aquarius, it’s a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.”

5. “You see, in the image of Aquarius, it’s a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. The creative personality who can do that then becomes a healer and is recognized as such by his colleagues.”

6. “The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. The creative personality who can do that then becomes a healer and is recognized as such by his colleagues.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.”

7. “In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.”

8. “As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.”

9. “The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “The little open door of each individual’s inferior function is what contributes to the sum of collective evil in the world.”

10. “The little open door of each individual’s inferior function is what contributes to the sum of collective evil in the world.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a ‘cosmic’ or ‘greater’ meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.”

11. “Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a ‘cosmic’ or ‘greater’ meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.”

12. “Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “It is as if something somewhere were ‘known’ in the form of images – but not by us.”

13. “It is as if something somewhere were ‘known’ in the form of images – but not by us.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.”

14. “There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “As soon as we notice that certain types of events ‘like’ to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a ‘science’ of meaningful coincidences.”

15. “As soon as we notice that certain types of events ‘like’ to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a ‘science’ of meaningful coincidences.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.”

16. “A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “The fourth function is always life’s great problem:.”

17. “The fourth function is always life’s great problem:.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.”

18. “Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, ‘Oh, this is wonderful,’ may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs...”

19. “The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, ‘Oh, this is wonderful,’ may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs...”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “Number... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.”

20. “Number... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides “miraculously” with experimental measurements.”

21. “The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides “miraculously” with experimental measurements.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential.”

22. “Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “Unfortunately, possession brings the conviction that one is right. Just as the Russians are convinced that the Western world is the destructive element, in the same way if the animus catches us, we can be sure that things are like that. The most important thing is to know this. Like most of my brothers and sisters, when I let myself be possessed by the animus, I do not realize; I am convinced that is my opinion and not my animus.”

23. “Unfortunately, possession brings the conviction that one is right. Just as the Russians are convinced that the Western world is the destructive element, in the same way if the animus catches us, we can be sure that things are like that. The most important thing is to know this. Like most of my brothers and sisters, when I let myself be possessed by the animus, I do not realize; I am convinced that is my opinion and not my animus.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “A person caught in a neurotic state, in some respects may well be compared to a man bewitched. Forced to a very low level of behavior, people suffering from a neurosis is capable of acting jarring and so destructive to themselves and to others, with basic or instinctive motivations.”

24. “A person caught in a neurotic state, in some respects may well be compared to a man bewitched. Forced to a very low level of behavior, people suffering from a neurosis is capable of acting jarring and so destructive to themselves and to others, with basic or instinctive motivations.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “The animus awakens passion in a woman. His plans, purposes and whims stir up self-doubt within her and caused her to drag her feminine, passive nature out into the world and to expose herself to the resistance of the outer world. Then, when a woman has been successful in a man’s world, it means acute suffering to narrow down the scope of her activities, or to give them up altogether, in order to become more feminine again.”

25. “The animus awakens passion in a woman. His plans, purposes and whims stir up self-doubt within her and caused her to drag her feminine, passive nature out into the world and to expose herself to the resistance of the outer world. Then, when a woman has been successful in a man’s world, it means acute suffering to narrow down the scope of her activities, or to give them up altogether, in order to become more feminine again.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “One can only discover the mystery of the unconscious as a reality when one is naively curious, not when one wants to harness its power for the furtherance of some conscious design.”

26. “One can only discover the mystery of the unconscious as a reality when one is naively curious, not when one wants to harness its power for the furtherance of some conscious design.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “Women to a great extent – and the less they knew about it, the worse it is – rule even life and death in their surroundings. If the husband dies, or the children die, very often, the woman in that family has something to do with it.”

27. “Women to a great extent – and the less they knew about it, the worse it is – rule even life and death in their surroundings. If the husband dies, or the children die, very often, the woman in that family has something to do with it.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz Quote: “What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.”

28. “What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.”

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 25 Marie-Louise von Franz Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.