Carl Jung Quotes


It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.


Citations

Jung, C. G. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy. Princeton University Press, 1968, p. 14.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
  • Born: July 26, 1875
  • Died: June 6, 1961
  • Nationality: Swiss
  • Profession: Psychologist

Carl Gustav Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.