The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung

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

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl Jung

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.
Carl Jung

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung

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.
Carl Jung

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

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

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

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Jung

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 Jung

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

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl 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.
Carl Jung

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