Carl Jung's Quotes that tell a lot about ourselves | One of the Most Brilliant Minds of All Time

People will do anything, no matter how absurd (ridiculous), in order not to face their souls.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured, who torture others.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unloved lives of the parents.

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible (not accepted or allowed).

Where your fear is, there's your task.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Don't hold onto someone who's leaving, otherwise you won't meet the one who's coming.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

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

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

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

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

Midlife is the time to let go of an over dominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.

The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.

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

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.

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.