Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. - Carl Jung
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. - Carl Jung
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? - Carl Jung
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. - Carl Jung
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. - Carl Jung
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. - Carl Jung
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. - Carl Jung
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. - Carl Jung
The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it. - Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. - Carl Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. - Carl Jung
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
The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. - Carl Jung
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. - Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung
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
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Jung
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. - Carl Jung
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. - Carl Jung