Quotes By Carl Jung

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

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.

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.

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.

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