Carl Jung | Psychology & Philosophy

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself.

In every adult there lurks a child—an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid…

To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron; it burns into you and that is very painful.

Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

The decisive question for a man is: is he related to something infinite or not?

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking.

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

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.