Carl Jung Quotes

“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.”

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

“Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”

“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”

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

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

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

“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.”

“The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing.”

“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”

“Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”

“Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.”

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”