Quotes by Carl Jung
Published: 2019-05-02 • Last updated: 2021-05-03
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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
— Carl Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
— Carl Jung
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
— Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
— Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
— Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
— Carl Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
— Carl Jung
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.
— Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
— Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
— Carl Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
— Carl Jung