Carl Gustav Jung Quotations

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain

Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

...my evenings are taken up very largely with astrology, I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

My aim was to show that delusions and hallucinations were not just specific symptoms of mental disease but also had a human meaning.

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

I maintained that psychiatry, in the broadest sense, is a dialogue between the sick psyche and the psyche of the doctor, which is presumed to be 'normal.' It is a coming to terms between the sick personality and that of the therapist, both in principle equally subjective.

I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little.

He who looks outside his own heart DREAMS, he who looks inside his own heart AWAKENS.

Today as never before it is important that human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking withing them. It is unfortunately only too real, which is why psychology must insist on the reality of evil and must reject any definition that regards it as insignificant or actually non-existent.

Good advice"" is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so littleeffect......

God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.

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

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible toinfluence.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong

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.

To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.

The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man

Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.

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

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it.

The term 'religion' designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum

Thank God I'm Jung and not a Jungian.

Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.

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

Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are yet in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. We can well think all our lives long that we are following our own noses, and may never discover that we are, for the most part, supernumeraries on the stage of the world theatre.

All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents

The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the Church as the exclusive and divinely sanctioned earthly instrument of man's redemption. The East (India), however, insists that man is the sole cause of his higher development, for it believes in "self- liberation.

In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.

If there is anything 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.

Good. There are 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.

How indeed? He copes, like everybody else, as well as he can, that's all. And it's usually deplorably enough.

I began to blame the philosophers for rattling away when experience was lacking, and holding their tongues when they ought to have been answering with facts. In this respect they all seemed like watered-down theologians.

The life of man is a dubious experiment. It is a tremendous phenomenon only in numerical terms. Individually, it is so fleeting, so insufficient, that it is literally a miracle that anything can exist and develop at all.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.

The child who became the world-renowned psychologist C.G. Jung was christened Karl Gustav II Jung.