Carl Jung

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

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.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you

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

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

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

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

The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.