Quotes by Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

Happiness

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

Education

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

— Carl Jung

Happiness

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

— Carl Jung

Hope

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

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

— Carl Jung

Love

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.

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

— Carl Jung

Life

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

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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.

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

Education

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

Life

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

— Carl Jung

Happiness

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

Wisdom

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

— Carl Jung

Truth

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

— Carl Jung

Wisdom

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

— Carl Jung

Love