“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.”
Science
“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”
MusicAll Quotes by Carl Jung
“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”
Experience“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”
Death“Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.”
Dreams“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.”
Imagination“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.”
Change“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.”
Life“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”
Music“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.”
Love“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”
Imagination“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
Best“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
Change“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
Imagination“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Alone“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.”
Great“The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Life“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”
Experience“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
Intelligence“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
Parenting“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.”
Dreams