Carl Jung

Carl Jung

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The Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung is someone whose pithy observations have become part of everyday conversation. Their reputation for his concept of archetypes lends every quote an extra layer of authority. Browse 34 quotes by Carl Jung that cover ground from Truth, Imagination, Life, Knowledge, and Intelligence. To get a sense of their style, try: "We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”

— Carl Jung

Imagination

All Quotes by Carl Jung

“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

Intelligence

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

— Carl Jung

Change

“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”

— Carl Jung

Knowledge

“Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.”

— Carl Jung

Health

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

— Carl Jung

Best

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

— Carl Jung

Parenting

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

— Carl Jung

Life

“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”

— Carl Jung

Music

“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

Life

“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”

— Carl Jung

Great

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

— Carl Jung

Experience

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

— Carl Jung

Happiness

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

— Carl Jung

Experience

“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

“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

“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”

— Carl Jung

History

“Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

Dreams

“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

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”

— Carl Jung

Alone

“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 Jung

Imagination