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."

“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”

— Carl Jung

Death

All Quotes by Carl Jung

“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”

— Carl Jung

Death

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

— Carl Jung

Intelligence

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

— Carl Jung

Music

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

— Carl Jung

Alone

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

— Carl Jung

Best

“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

“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

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

— Carl Jung

History

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

— Carl Jung

Imagination

“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

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

— Carl Jung

Parenting

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”

— Carl Jung

Imagination

“Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.”

— Carl Jung

Health

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

— Carl Jung

Life

“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

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

— Carl Jung

Experience

“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

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

— Carl Jung

Happiness

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

— Carl Jung

Change

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

— Carl Jung

Dreams