Carl Jung Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Family

  Vom Werden der Pers"nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194

• As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Children, Childhood

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

• The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Character, Childhood

  "The Theory of Psychoanalysis". Book by Carl Jung, 1915.

• The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

  Carl Jung

  Childhood, Individual, Disposition

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.82, Psychology Press

• I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Optimistic, Men

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, p. 14, archive.org. 1963.

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