Carl Jung Quotes

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

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

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Carl Jung

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

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

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

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

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

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.

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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

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung