He is one of the most influential psychiatrists in the world. Through an expansive education and by authoring many books, Carl Jung donated so much to the study of the human psyche that he is considered by many to stand next to, and not in the shadow of, the world’s leading pschoanalysist, Freud. Always interested in spirituality and parapsychology, literature and alchemy, Jung dabbled in the arts of the spiritual world, ever exploring the realms of unconscious human experience that was often being ignored in modern-day medicine.
He overcame his breakdown and found the modern system of Analytical Psychology. Feeling limited and enclosed by science of the day, Jung decided to travel the world to explore and be an anthropologist of the mind of the people.
(1875-1961)
– Carl Gustav Jung Quotes –
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, in as much as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
