Quotes By Carl Jung

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.