Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

• Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Gustav Jung

• What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Art

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

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• Good advice is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so little effect……

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Advice

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Conscience

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

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Addiction, Vices

• 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 Gustav Jung

  Topics in Grief, Life

  Tags in Happiness

• 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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Happiness, Happy

• 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.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Love, Power

• Among all my patients in the second half of life … there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Age, Religion

• Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Understanding

• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Understanding

• Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Topics in Knowledge, Vision

  Tags in Heart, Outside

Carl Gustav Jung (134)

Birth:	26th July, 1875
Death:	6th June, 1961
Nationality:	Swiss
Profession:	Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Psychotherapist

About

Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland. He was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death. Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity.

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