Quotes By Carl Jung

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

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

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

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

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

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