Quotes by Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung

Swiss psychiatrist

Alive from: 1875-1961

Category: Psychology

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  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.

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  A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.

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  A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

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  All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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

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

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

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  From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

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  Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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.

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  I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

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  If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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

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  It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

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  It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

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  It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.