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.
Carl Jung - Change - Children - Childhood - Self Awareness

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Carl Jung - History - Now - Truth - Learning - Sad - Prejudice - Wrong

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung - Self Awareness - Irritated - Understanding

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like Nature herself.. prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
Carl Jung - History - Instinct - Creativity - Unconscious - Nature - Impulse

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.
Carl Jung - Unconscious - Conscious - Fate

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
Carl Jung - Understanding - Intelligent - Feelings - Judgment - Truth - Honesty

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.
Carl Jung - Happiness - Sad - Life

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.
Carl Jung - Great - Talent - Human Race - Risk

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.
Carl Jung - Unconscious - Life - Self Awareness - Stupid - Tragic

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.
Carl Jung - Love - Power - Lack

It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation. (1933)
Carl Jung - Psychology - Contradiction - Opinions - Knowledge - Science

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung - Creativity - Imagination - Fantasy