Quotes By Carl Jung

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

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

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.

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

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

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

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

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

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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

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

A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.

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

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

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

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.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

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

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

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.

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.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

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

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

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

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

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.

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

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.

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