Carl Jung Quotes

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

A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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

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

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

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.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

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

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.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

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