Carl Jung quotes page 1

1875-1961, Swiss psychologist

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks ouside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

If there is anything 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.
Carl Jung

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was
wasted.
Carl Jung

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the
senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our
times.
Carl Jung

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's
course. 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 Jung

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
Carl 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 Jung

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
Carl Jung

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is
any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

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

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
Carl Jung

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

Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering,
"There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public
opinion or moral code.
Carl Jung

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Carl Jung

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

The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man
begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally,
therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the
spirit love, for their fulfillment.
Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other
people.
Carl Jung

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal
explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.
Carl Jung

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who
touched our human feeling. 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

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.
Carl Jung

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world.
Carl Jung

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with
inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,
reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they
have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a
spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled
to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.
Carl Jung

Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung

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