“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“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.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“The gods have become our diseases.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
"When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious."
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
"Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you."
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
"To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful."
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
"Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature."
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
"The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth."
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
"The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end."
― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)