Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes

Quotes from the great Swiss psychiatrist & psychoanalyst - Carl Gustav Jung.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

The psyche is the greatest of all cosmic wonders and the sine qua non of the world as an object. It is in the highest degree odd that Western man, with but very few and ever fewer exceptions, apparently pays so little regard to this fact.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

It is only through the mystery of self-sacrifice that a man may find himself anew.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

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

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

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 in which we are born.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

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

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

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 Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

Every human life contains a potential. If that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

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 Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

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

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

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.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

[Carl Gustav Jung | Quotes @SummonTheSelf]

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.