Quotes from Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

I don't believe. I know.

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

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

The true leader is always led.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.