Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
– Carl Jung
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
– Carl Jung
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
– Carl Jung
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
– Carl Jung
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.
– Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
– Carl Jung
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
– Carl Jung
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
– Carl Jung
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
– Carl Jung
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
– Carl Jung
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
– Carl Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
– Carl Jung
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
– Carl Jung
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
– Carl Jung
If there is anything that 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.
– Carl Jung
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
– Carl Jung
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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
– Carl Jung
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
– Carl Jung
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
– Carl Jung
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
