Carl Gustav Jung quotes

Carl Gustav Jung is one of the voices that reminds us that the human inner world is as important as the outer. He wrote about the psyche, dreams, and self-understanding with depth and curiosity. When we share his quotes, we share a glimpse into the human mind and an invitation to reflect on ourselves and life.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

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

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

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