Carl Jung Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.”

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

“Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”

“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 least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“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.”

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

“Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”

“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

“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.”