57 Carl Jung Quotes for You to Enjoy

Carl Jung

Swiss Psychologist

Born: Jul 26, 1875

Died: Jun 6, 1961

Better Life Man Own Truth Will

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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. Carl Jung

Science Wine Year Astrology Claim Born Given More Lay Like Qualities Does Years Anything Place Which Moment Season Vintage

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. Carl Jung

Psychic Masses Always Epidemic Breeding Grounds

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

Life Problems Important Solved Only Never Most Greatest Fundamentally

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung

Imagination Debt Owe Incalculable Play

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl Jung

Intelligence Will Vain Solve Struggled Mystery Intellect Hands Often

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. Carl Jung

Life Problem Half Resort Hundreds Say Those Finding Religious Outlook Over Been Patients Many Whose Among Second Last Treated

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. Carl Jung

Darkness Evil Understanding Definite Comprehensible Does Cure Inasmuch Help Cope

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. Carl Jung

Pure Extrovert Asylum Would Would-Be Introvert Person Thing Lunatic

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. Carl Jung

Young Duty Too Danger Almost Attention Sin Devote Himself Least Person Young Person Ageing Preoccupied Serious Necessity

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. Carl Jung

Truth Psychic Collective Resting Disposition Think Society Relation Broad Our Shall Bears Individual Unconscious Get Personal Same Psyche Which Inherited Nearest Conscious Universal Basis

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

Fool Tends Him Understand Does Person Regard

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Carl Jung

Man Become Press Unconscious Contents Task Upward Conscious

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. Carl Jung

Self Developed Buddha Highly Perhaps Importance Most Greatest Greatest Importance Psychology Apart Far Figure Differentiated Symbol

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. Carl Jung

Genius Better Sometimes Indeed Oneself Between Talent Qualities Been His Discrepancy Human Whether Little Might Ask Less Human Qualities

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. Carl Jung

Soul Suffering Must Understood Discovered Ultimately Which Meaning

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. Carl Jung

Music Noise Always Just Scream

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them. Carl Jung

Better Animals Own Our Ourselves Seeking Rational Fact Observe Instincts Due Than Accustomed Explanations Them Far Actions Grown Position

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