Carl Jung Quotes

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

There's a dark side to everything.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

A light here required a shadow there.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.