Carl Jung Quotes

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

"To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can."
-Carl Jung

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

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

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

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves."
-Carl Jung

"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."
-Carl Jung

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. "
-Carl Jung

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

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

"The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions."
-Carl Jung

"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."
-Carl Jung

"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."
-Carl Jung in Creativity quotes.

"I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God."
-Carl Jung

"Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you."
-Carl Jung

"Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place."
-Carl Jung

"I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way."
-Carl Jung

"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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 Jung

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

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."
-Carl Jung in Failure quotes.

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
-Carl Jung

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
-Carl Jung

"Religion is a defense against the experience of God."
-Carl Jung

"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."
-Carl Jung

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
-Carl Jung

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

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