Carl Jung

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Every true and deep love is a sacrifice.

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

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages alchemy formed a bridge on the one hand into the past to Gnosticism and on the other into the future to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

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

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

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

The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

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.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakens.

The angels are a strange genus they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

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

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment torment death and transfiguration.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

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.

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

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

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

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.

Ultimate truth if there be such a thing demands the concert of many voices.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

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

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.

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

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

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

Dawn is born at midnight.

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

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

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.

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

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

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

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

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

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.

Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

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.

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.

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.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

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 answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

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

Medicines cure diseases but only doctors can cure patients.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

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

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.

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

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

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.

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

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

It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantit negligeable.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely

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

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

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

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

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 afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

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

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

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.

Man cannot stand a meaninless life.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

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.

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.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

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

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.