1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.

Man cannot stand a meaninless life.

The man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

If meaninglessness were absolutely preponderant, the meaningless ends of life would vanish to an increasing degree with each step in our development. But that is— or seems to me— not the case. Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is- or has-meaning and meaninglessness.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Psychotherapy has taught us that in the final reckoning it is not knowledge, not technical skill, that has a curative effect, but the personality of the doctor.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if sadness did not balance it. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.