Carl Jung Quotes

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc...

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can neve...

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can neve...

Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and witho...

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their child...

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched ...

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happine...

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no me...

Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can...

Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched ...

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether...

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into...

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams;...

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of ...

We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or...

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

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. Th...

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate im...

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mist...

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop...

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualiti...

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make th...

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to th...

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is...

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.