Top 10 Quotes of Carl Gustav Jung

1. "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung (Jung, 1964, p. 21)

2. "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." - Carl Jung (Jung, 1964, p. 54)

3. "The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown." - Carl Jung (Jung, 1964, p. 10)

4. "Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people." - Carl Jung (Jung & Sabini, 1992, p. 16)

5. "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung (Jung & Sabini, 1992, p. 39)

6. "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own soul. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung (Jung, 1964, p. 23)

7. "Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." - Carl Jung (Jung, 1964, p. 187)

8. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung (Jung & Sabini, 1992, p. 34)

9. "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung (Jung, 1964, p. 25)

10. "Your perception will become clear only when you can look into your soul." - Carl Jung (Jung, 1964, p. 21)

References:

Jung, C. G. (1964). Man and his symbols. Doubleday.

Jung, C. G., & Sabini, M. (1992). The Portable Jung. Penguin.