Quotes By Carl Jung

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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

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. 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.

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

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.