And the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is

In Jungian psychology, the shadow or "shadow aspect" is a part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts. It is one of the three most recognizable archetypes, the others being the anima and animus and the persona. "Everyone carries a shadow," Jung wrote, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is

t is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. 
Carl Jung

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Martin Heidegger

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. 
Friedrich Nietzsche