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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl Jung

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung

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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

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

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

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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

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

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

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl Jung

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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

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

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung