1875 - 1961
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Known for his concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, and the process of individuation, Jung made significant contributions to the field of psychology and is considered one of the most important figures in the development of modern psychology.
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours.
A man who is not on fire is nothing.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
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.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
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.
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Where your fear is, there is your task.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate.
No tree can grow to Heaven unless it’s roots reach down to Hell.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Neurotic problems are the language of the unconscious emerging into social awareness.
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
A tree that wants to reach up into heaven has to grow its roots all the way into hell.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.