3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung 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.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung 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.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
3 December 2020 Carl Jung Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
