Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work was influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies. Profoundly inspirational Carl Jung quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Famous Carl Jung Quotes
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. 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
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. 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
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. 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
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Carl Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Jung
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. 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
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Jung
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. Carl Jung
The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung
We don’t really heal anything; we simply let it go. Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. Carl Jung
There is no birth of consciousness without pain. Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. 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
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Carl Jung
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotions. Carl Jung
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. Carl Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. Carl Jung
Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. 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 is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung
The word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellecthas struggled with in vain. Carl Jung
The healthy man does not torture others generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. Carl Jung
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. Carl Jung
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. Carl Jung
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. Carl Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Jung
Children are educated by what the grown up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung
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
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. Carl Jung
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? Carl Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. Carl Jung
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you. Carl Jung
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Carl Jung
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. Carl Jung
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness’s of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. Carl Jung
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.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
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. Carl Jung
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. Carl Jung
It 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
The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire. Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung
Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides. Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung
Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them. Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Carl Jung
Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self actualisation. Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung
I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed. Carl Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl Jung
We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems. Carl Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Jung
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. Carl Jung
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. 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
We don’t get wounded alone and we don’t heal alone. Carl Jung
