Carl Jung

Psychologist

1875-07-26 – 1961-06-06

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

Quotes by Carl Jung

Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.
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Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.
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Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.
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Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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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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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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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.
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A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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