36 Quotes By Carl Jung


Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung on alone

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

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.
Carl Jung on change

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung on change

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Jung on death

Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung on dreams

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung on dreams

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung on experience

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Jung on experience

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.
Carl Jung on great

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung on happiness

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
Carl Jung on health

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

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung on 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.
Carl Jung on imagination

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung on imagination

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung on intelligence

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung on intelligence

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 Jung on knowledge

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung on knowledge