Quotes from Carl Jung

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

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.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

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.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

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.

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.