Quotes by Carl Jung

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

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

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.

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.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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 lifes morning.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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.

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

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

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.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

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

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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.