Carl Jung Quotes

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, love is lacking

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

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong

Tension is a great thing: it is the perpetual birth of possibilities

Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself

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

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become

I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal

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

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul

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

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge

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

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become

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

Symbols are the pregnant carriers of meaning.

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

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

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood

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

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health

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

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know

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

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

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering

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

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood, it becomes a living experience