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Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist, psychotherapist, and founder of analytical psychology. He is best known for his theories regarding archetypes. Who was born in 1875 and died in 1961.
Initially, he trained as an artist but soon switched to medicine due to his interest in psychiatry. He became the founder of analytical psychology and psychotherapy. He never used drugs or alcohol in his life, but he occasionally smoked cigarettes, which eventually led to lung cancer.
Carl Jung had significant impacts on psychoanalysis, which later developed into a discipline that can be used for therapeutic purposes and for understanding human behavior across different cultures and ages. His lifelong search for meaning led him to discover spirituality through his studies of Indian philosophy and Buddhism. His work has been influential both scientifically and philosophically – he is considered one of the most important contributors to modern psychology.
Check out some of his inspirational quotes. It will help you to understand yourself and life better.
61 Most Inspiring Carl Jung Quotes
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.“
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.“
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.“
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.“
“The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.“
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.“
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.“
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.“
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.“
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.“
“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.”
“The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.”
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.“
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.“
“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.“
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.“
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellecthas struggled with in vain.“
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“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.“
“To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.”
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.“
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.“
“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.“
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.“
“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.“
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves.”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.“
“A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.”
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.“
“I regret many follies which sprang from my obstinacy; but without that trait I would not have reached my goal.”
“The rational attitude which permits us to declare objective values as valid at all is not the work of the individual subject, but the product of human history.”
“To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.”
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.“
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.“
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.“
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.“
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.“
“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.”
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.“
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
“A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.”
“The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.“
“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.”
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.”
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotions.“
