“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”
— Carl Jung
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
— Carl Jung
“Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
— Carl Jung
“So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.”
— Carl Jung
“The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.”
— Carl Jung
“The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is … lack of faith.”
— Carl Jung
“The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods.”
— Carl Jung
“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 a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”
— Carl Jung
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.”
— Carl Jung
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
— Carl Jung
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
— Carl Jung
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses.”
— Carl Jung
“The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
— Carl Jung
“Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.”
— Carl Jung
“Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.”
— Carl Jung
“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.”
– Carl Jung
“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.”
– Carl Jung
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
– Carl Jung
“A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.”
– 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.”
– Carl Jung
“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.”
– Carl Jung
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
– Carl Jung
“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
“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
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
– Carl Jung
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
– Carl Jung
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”
– Carl Jung
“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
“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”
– Carl Jung
“Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.”
– Carl Jung