“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
“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”
DeathAll Quotes by Carl Jung
“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“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
Intelligence“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
Intelligence“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
Imagination“Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.”
Health“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Alone“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”
Music“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”
History“The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Life“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
Happiness“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“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.”
Dreams“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”
Experience“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
Best“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“Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.”
Dreams“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
Change“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“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
Parenting