Carl Jung

Reason alone does not suffice.

—Carl Jung

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

—Carl Jung

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

—Carl Jung

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

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

—Carl Jung

This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.

—Carl Jung

This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.

—Carl Jung

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome.

Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.

The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.

What we see is the blossom, which passes.

The rhizome remains.

—Carl Jung

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome.

Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.

The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.

What we see is the blossom, which passes.

The rhizome remains.

—Carl Jung

Morality presupposes consciousness.

—Carl Jung

Wisdom begins only when one takes things as they are.

So it is a healing attitude when one can agree with the facts as they are, only then can we thrive.

—Carl Jung

That which we need the most, will be found where we least want to look.

—Carl Jung

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

—Carl Jung

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

—Carl Jung

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found -given- by experience.

—Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

—Carl Jung

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

—Carl Jung

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

—Carl Jung

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

—Carl Jung

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

—Carl Jung

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

—Carl Jung

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

—Carl Jung

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

—Carl Jung

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

—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

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

—Carl Jung

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

—Carl Jung

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own.

—Carl Jung

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

—Carl Jung

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

—Carl Jung

Deep down, below the surface of the average man’s conscience, he hears a voice whispering:

“There is something not right”

No matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

—Carl Jung