Carl Jung

1875–1961 · Swiss psychiatrist & founder of analytical psychology

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology, developing ideas such as the collective unconscious, archetypes, individuation, and psychological types. Because his name lends instant intellectual weight, it is one of the internet’s most common magnets for polished-sounding quotations he never wrote — and this line, absent from his Collected Works, appears to be one of them.

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“The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world. This is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people”

Disputed

Not actually Carl Jung

Often misattributed to Carl Jung

Famous lines widely pinned on Carl Jung that we’ve traced to someone else.

“Called or uncalled, God will be present”

actually An ancient Delphic oracle, via Erasmus

“Creative minds are rarely tidy”

actually John W. Gardner

On the research bench

Commonly pinned on Carl Jung — under review

2 lines flagged as pinned on Carl Jung and queued for a full source trace — not yet verified.

“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”

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“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

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