Carl Jung Quotes

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Carl Jung

Profession : Psychologist

Birth : July 26, 1875

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung

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

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Carl Jung

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

Carl Jung

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

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

Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Carl Jung

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

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

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung