Quotes By 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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.

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

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.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

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

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

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.

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.

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

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.

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

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.

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.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

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