Carl Gustav 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 Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"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 Gustav Jung

"The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"There's no coming to consciousness without pain."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"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 Gustav Jung

"Shame is a soul eating emotion."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual becomes."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"... anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times."

- Carl Gustav 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 Gustav Jung

"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Words are animals, alive with a will of their own."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"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."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The true leader is always led."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I chose to become."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie."

- Carl Gustav 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 Gustav Jung

"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"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 Gustav Jung

"What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?"

- Carl Gustav Jung

"The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. Thus we demand that the world grant us recognition for qualities which we regard as personal possessions: our talent or our beauty. The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy. If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse; that, for example, the hope of grater freedom is canceled out by increased enslavement to the state, not to speak of the terrible perils to which the most brilliant discoveries of science expose us. The less we understand of what our [forebears] sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"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 in which we are born."

- Carl Gustav Jung

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

- Carl Gustav Jung