Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

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

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

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

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

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

If there is anything 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.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely

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

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.

Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.

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

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.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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

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

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one`s own being

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

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

You can take away a man`s gods, but only to give him

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology

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

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