Carl Jung1875–1961The quotations of
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist
1875–1961
33 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Sleep and Thinking.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 67Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 246Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
- During an interview with H. R. Knickerbocker (1939), quoted in A Life of Jung (2002) by Ronald Hayman, p. 360
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Mysterium Coniunctionis, from The Collected Works of C. G. Jung (1966)In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1934), p. 32 (1981 edition)- Psychology and Alchemy (1952), par. 51 p.46
- The Symbolic Life (1953)
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 356
- Paracelsus the Physician (1942)
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
Paracelsus the Physician (1942)- Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960), p. 33
