Carl Gustav Jung ( 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy and religious studies. He came to the attention of the Viennese founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, as a notable research scientist on the grounds of the famous Burgollzli Hospital under Eugene Bleuler. The two men conducted a long correspondence and collaborated on an early joint vision of human psychology. Jung was an artist, craftsman and producer as well as a prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his death and some are still awaiting publication. Here we present a collection of famous carl Jung quotes that are about self, love, life, darkness, soul and relationship.
Carl Jung Quotes
- “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”― C.G. Jung
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”― C.G. Jung
- “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”― Carl Gustav Jung
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”― C.G. Jung
- “There’s no coming to consciousness without pain.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”― Carl Jung
- “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”― Carl Gustav 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 G. Jung
- “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”― C.G. Jung
- “Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”― Carl Gustav Jung
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”― C.G. Jung
- “The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”― C.G. Jung
- “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “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.”― C.G. Jung
- “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”― Carl Jung
- “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”― C.G. Jung
- “The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”― C.G. Jung
- “Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted…”― Carl Gustav 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.”― Carl G. Jung
- “I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”― Carl Jung
- …anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”― Carl Jung
- “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”― Carl Jung
- “There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool”― C.G. Jung
- “Words are animals, alive with a will of their own”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.”― Carl Jung
- “Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.”― 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 Gustav Jung
- “Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual becomes.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”― C.G. Jung
- “My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.”― Carl Jung
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- “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”― C.G. Jung
- “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”― Carl Jung
- “Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “We are not what happened to us,we are what we wish to become.”― C.G. Jung
- “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 in which we are born.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.”― Carl Jung
- “I don’t aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”― Carl Jung
- “Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”― C. G. Jung
- “Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”― Carl Jung
- “The fool is the precursor to the savior.”― Carl Jung
- “The gods have become our diseases.”― C.G. Jung
- “People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.”― Carl Jung
- “We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”― C.G. Jung
- “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.”― C.G. Jung
- “Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.”― Carl Jung
- “Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”― Carl Gustav Jung
- “Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”― C.G. Jung
- “For better to come, good must stand aside.”― Carl Jung
