Quotes by Carl Jung

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

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

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of  other people.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” 

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” 

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” 

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

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.” 

“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” 

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” 

“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” 

“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. ”