Words matter. These are the best Carl Jung Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
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.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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 the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‘continent,’ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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 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.
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.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
