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Carl Jung quotes

1875–1961 · Swiss psychiatrist

Jung broke with Freud and developed ideas about archetypes and the collective unconscious. Much of what circulates under his name online is self-help paraphrase.

2 real · 1 not theirs

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2 quotes traced to Carl Jung's own work or a reliable witness.

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

Source: Letter to Fanny Bowditch (22 October 1916)

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

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)

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1 famous lines credited to Carl Jung that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.

Misquoted

What you resist persists.

The real words: A modern self-help slogan loosely based on Jung's ideas; the sentence is not in his works.