Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

Carl Jung Philosopher

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Switzerland
  • Born: Jul 26, 1875
  • Died: Jun 6, 1961

Carl Gustav Jung, often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not published until after his death.

The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.

Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a popular psychometric instrument, was developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Jung saw the human psyche as "by nature religious" and made this religiousness the focus of his explorations.

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. love & power

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. life

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

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

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? history

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. music

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

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. death

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. intelligence & truth

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. experience

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. imagination

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

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

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. intelligence

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

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

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. happiness & sadness

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. being alone, knowledge & truth

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health. health

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