Carl Jung Quotes

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other.[Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen Machtwillen, und wo die Macht den Vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.]

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.[Man wird wohl der Wahrheit am nächsten kommen, wenn man sich vorstellt, daß unsere bewußte und persönliche Psyche auf dem breiten Fundament einer vererbten und allgemeinen Geistesdisposition ruht, die als solche unbewußt ist, und daß sich unsere persönliche Psyche zur Kollektivpsyche etwa verhält wie das Individuum zur Gemeinschaft.]

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

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.[Ihre Visionen werden nur klar, wenn Sie in Ihr eigenes Herz schauen. Wer nur rausschaut, träumt; wer reinschaut, wacht auf.]

Without freedom there can be no morality.[Ohne Freiheit kann es keine Sittlichkeit geben.]

Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way.

The word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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.

The small world of the child, the familiar surroundings these form the model of the big world.

The greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble. They must be so, for they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but rather the times which are measured or determined by arbitrarily named stellar positions. Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge.