62 Carl Jung Quotes On Life and Success

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. He is regarded as one of the most influential psychologists in history. Here are 62 Carl Jung quotes that can help you understand yourself and others around you.

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Carl Jung Quotes

1. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung

2. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung

3. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

4. “We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” – Carl Jung

5. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – Carl Jung

6. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” – Carl Jung

7. “Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.” – Carl Jung

8. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Jung

9. “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.” – Carl Jung

10. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” – Carl Jung

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11. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung

12. “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” – Carl Jung

13. “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

14. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung

15. “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

16. “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

17. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” – Carl Jung

18. “A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.” – Carl Jung

19. “The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” – Carl Jung

20. “A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.” – Carl Jung

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21. “The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.” – Carl Jung

22. “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” – Carl Jung

23. “There are as 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.” – Carl Jung

24. “Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.” – Carl Jung

25. “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” – Carl Jung

26. “To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.” – Carl Jung

27. “An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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

28. “Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.” – Carl Jung

29. “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.” – Carl Jung

30. “The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one’s own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.” – Carl Jung

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31. “The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.” – Carl Jung

32. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung

33. “Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.” – Carl Jung

34. “True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.” – Carl Jung

35. “It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.” – Carl Jung

36. “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.” – Carl Jung

37. “If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.” – Carl Jung

38. “As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.” – Carl Jung

39. “To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.” – Carl Jung

40. “Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.” – Carl Jung

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41. “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” – Carl Jung

42. “I don’t aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.” – Carl Jung

43. “Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.” – Carl Jung

44. “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.” – Carl Jung

45. “Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.” – Carl Jung

46. “We don’t really heal anything; we simply let it go.” – Carl Jung

47. “In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.” – Carl Jung

48. “To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.” – Carl Jung

49. “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” – Carl Jung

50. “Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.” – Carl Jung

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51. “Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.” – Carl Jung

52. “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” – Carl Jung

53. “When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.” – Carl Jung

54. “What you resist, persists.” – Carl Jung

55. “Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.” – Carl Jung

56. “The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual becomes.” – Carl Jung

57. “Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.” – Carl Jung

58. “We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.” – Carl Jung

59. “Where your fear is, there is your task.” – Carl Jung

60. “Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.” – Carl Jung

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61. “Man cannot stand a meaningless life.” – Carl Jung

62. “One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung

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