Carl Jung Quotes

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 Jung

Patience, Life, Happy

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

Everything, Others, Ourselves

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.
Carl Jung

Change, Wish, Child

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

Dreams, Heart, Become

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

Life, Person, Living

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 Jung

Teacher, Gratitude, Human

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

Best, Darkness, Knowing

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

Two, Both, Reaction

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

Parenting, Children, Talk

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 Jung

Reason, Difficult, Word

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

Dreams, Looks, Inside

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

Bad, Addiction, Alcohol

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

Human, Light, Far

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

Change, Cannot, Accept

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

Him, Show, Cure

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

Beautiful, Woman, Rule

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.
Carl Jung

Evil, Nothing, Everything

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

Sad, Happiness, Sadness

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung

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

Secret, Order, Chaos

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 Jung

Deep, Down, Through

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

Through, Overcome, Passed

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

Others, Healthy, Turn

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

Mind, Play, Acting

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

Creative, Works, Fantasy

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Psychologist

Born: July 26, 1875

Died: June 6, 1961

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