Carl Jung Quotes

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

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

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.

The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

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

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

Called or not, God is always there.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

Invited or not, God is present.

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

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

I would rather be whole than good.

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.