The quotations of

Carl Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist

1875–1961

33 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Sleep and Thinking.

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.
The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97
- Love
- Power
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 326
- Life & Death
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
- Pride
Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Life & Death
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 49
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1934)
- Sleep
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.
“The Art of Living”, interview with journalist Gordon Young first published in 1960
- Happiness
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
Psychology and Alchemy (1952), CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)
A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 69
- Life & Death
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
- Science
I could not say I believe — I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
- God
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
The Integration of the Personality (1939), p. 285
- Children
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.
- Art
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
- Virtue
The healthy man does not torture others⁠—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
In Du, May 1941

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