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Quotes by Carl Jung

Carl Jung, born on July 26, 1875, in Switzerland, was a pioneering psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose work laid the foundation for analytical psychology. His profound exploration of the unconscious mind, dreams, and archetypes revolutionized the field of psychology, influencing not only therapy but also art, literature, and spirituality. Jung's legacy includes concepts like the collective unconscious and personality typologies, which continue to shape our understanding of human behavior today. His insights into the psyche remain relevant, making him a towering figure in psychological thought.

25 quotes found

"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."

Carl Jung

"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."

Carl Jung

"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

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

Carl Jung

"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

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

Carl Jung

"Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?"

Carl Jung