Carl Jung
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.Collection: Power
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.Collection: History
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.Collection: Parenting
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.Collection: Experience
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?Collection: Dreams
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?Collection: History
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.Collection: Truth
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.Collection: Health
Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Patience
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.Collection: Great
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.Collection: Knowledge
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.Collection: Experience
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Collection: Wisdom
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 of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.Collection: Science
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.Collection: Death
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.Collection: Morning
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.Collection: Health
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.Collection: Sad
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Collection: Dreams
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.Collection: Imagination
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.Collection: Imagination
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.Collection: Best
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.Collection: Future
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.Collection: Truth
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.Collection: Change
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.Collection: Life
If there is anything that 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.Collection: Change
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.Collection: Imagination
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.Collection: Intelligence
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.Collection: Anger
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Teacher
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.