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."

“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

All Quotes by Carl Jung

“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

“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

Teacher

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

— Carl Jung

Best

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

— Carl Jung

Imagination

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

— Carl Jung

Intelligence

“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

Science

“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

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

— Carl Jung

Life

“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

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

— Carl Jung

Happiness

“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

“Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.”

— Carl Jung

Health

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

— Carl Jung

Parenting

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

— Carl Jung

Dreams

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

— Carl Jung

History

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

— Carl Jung

Music

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

— Carl Jung

Experience

“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

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

— Carl Jung

Death