# Quote — Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

> Sometimes I had an overwhelming urge to speak, not about that, but only to hint that there were some curious things about me which no one knew of. I wanted to find out whether other people had undergone similar experiences. I never succeeded in discovering so much as a trace of them in others. As a result, I had the feeling that I was either outlawed or elect, accursed or blessed.

- Author: [Carl Jung](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung.md)
- Book: [Memories, Dreams, Reflections](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/memories-dreams-reflections.md)
- Page: 41
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/memories-dreams-reflections/sometimes-i-had

## More from this book

> For lack of empirical data I have neither knowledge nor understanding of such forms of being, which are commonly called spiritual. ...Nevertheless, we have good reason to suppose that behind this veil there exists the uncomprehended absolute object which affects and influences us—and to suppose it even, or particularly, in the case of psychic phenomena about which no verifiable statements can be made.

p. 351 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/memories-dreams-reflections/for-lack-of-empirical.md)

> The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. The numinosum is dangerous because it lures men to extremes, so that a modest truth is regarded as the truth and a minor mistake is equated with fatal error.

p. 154 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/memories-dreams-reflections/the-pendulum-of-the.md)

> As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

p. 326 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-jung/memories-dreams-reflections/as-far-as-we-can.md)