Quotes by Carl Jung

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

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

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

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

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

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

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

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

"Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes."

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

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

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

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

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

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

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

"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."

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

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"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."

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"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."

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment."

"Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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