Carl Jung Quotes

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

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

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

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

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

God enters through the wound.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

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.

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.

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

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

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.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

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

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.