Carl Jung Quotes

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

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

“The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.”

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

“Dreams are the guiding words of the soul.”

“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.”

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”

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

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

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

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

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.”

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

“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.”

“There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.”