Carl Gustav Jung

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Biography : Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Born: 1875 - Died: 1961
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Switzerland

Switzerland

Carl Gustav Jung - Quotes

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections /

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

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.
Carl Gustav Jung - Über die Psychologie des Unbewussten /

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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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.
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The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different.
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life

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
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Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
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dream

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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What youth found and must find outside, the man of life's afternoon must find within himself.
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True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories.
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True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories.

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
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change

Psychology, as I understand it, is not only a piece of knowledge but a certain wisdom of life.
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A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
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There are dreams that are pure poems.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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imagination

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

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.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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life

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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imagination

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Gustav Jung

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
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imagination

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