Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and is renowned as the founder of analytical psychology.  Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician, much of his life’s work was spent exploring other areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, as well as literature and the arts. His most notable ideas include the concept of psychological archetypes, the collective unconscious and synchronicity.  Jung is the source of some of my all time favorite quotes.  I admire how he mixes logical thinking along with a grain of spirituality and the subconscious realms.  Here is a list of my favorite quotes from Carl Jung:

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.


The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.




There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotions.



In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.



Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.



Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.


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

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

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

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

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