Carl Jung Quotes


What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits. Carl Jung Pursuit 160
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Generally 153
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. Carl Jung Fear 151
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung Life 151
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung Dream 142
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. Carl Jung Beautiful 120
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung Life 98
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. Carl Jung Fundamentally 97
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung Chemical 95
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. Carl Jung death 91
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung Imagination 91
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 Science 89
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. Carl Jung Civilization 87
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung Power 86
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl Jung Intelligence 84
I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles. Carl Jung Nature 82
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. Carl Jung Average 81
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung Change 79
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung Happy 76
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung Intelligence 71
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. Carl Jung Imagination 69
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung Teacher 68
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Carl Jung Health 67
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. Carl Jung Among 66
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. Carl Jung Doubt 64
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung Parenting 62
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung Dream 60
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? Carl Jung History 59
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung Change 58
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. Carl Jung Experience 57
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. Carl Jung Become 56
Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next. Carl Jung Growth 55
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. Carl Jung Among 53
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. Carl Jung Experience 53
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness that must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life. Carl Jung Art 52
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung Between 51
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung best 44
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung Debt 40
A scream is always just that - a noise and not music. Carl Jung Music 35
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. Carl Jung Comprehensible 28

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