Without this playing with fantasy no cre... by Carl Jung | We Heart Quotes

Work Imagination Psychologist Personal development Dream analysis

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

Other quotes by Carl Jung

Wrong Mind Right

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

- Carl Jung

Fate

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

- Carl Jung

Christian May Nothing

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

- Carl Jung

Truth World

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

Understanding

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

- Carl Jung

Dreams

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

- Carl Jung

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