Carl Jung Portrait

"If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love."

— Carl Jung

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If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love.

— Carl Jung

About this quote

From The Red Book: Liber Novus, specifically the Liber Primus section. The Red Book was Jung's most intimate and experimental work — a large illuminated manuscript he worked on privately from 1913 to around 1930, recording the visions, dialogues, and reflections of his self-imposed confrontation with the unconscious. It was not published until 2009. The passage belongs to a broader sequence in which Jung articulates the integration of opposites as the central psychological task: thinking without feeling becomes abstract and hollow, while feeling without thinking becomes undifferentiated sentiment. Together they constitute what Jung called a whole or integrated psyche.

Source

The Red Book: Liber Novus