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.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which is morally neutral and which, like the sea, contains all sorts of things from dead bodies to living fishes.

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

The less an adult is able to understand his own hidden motives, the more he is at the mercy of them.

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

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

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

The beginning of wisdom is the admission of one's own lack of knowledge. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

The greatest danger for man is that he loses himself in the collective.

What drives people to do things is not the rational but the irrational.

The man who promises everything, promises nothing.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But in the depths of our heart we really know what we are.

It is often in the darkest of skies that we see the brightest stars.

Existence is only what you yourself make of it.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.