Quotes By Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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