Change your picture of the world and you change yourself.

Carl Jung, Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927)

What it means

Ideas are not just opinions you hold. They shape who you become. Choose them carefully.

The source

"Change your picture of the world and you change yourself." Carl Jung said it in Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"And with the image the thinking man makes of the world, he also changes himself."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927). Text read at archive.org.

Who said it

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.

Questions

What does "Change your picture of the world and you change yourself." mean?: Ideas are not just opinions you hold. They shape who you become. Choose them carefully.
Who said "Change your picture of the world and you change yourself."?: Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927).
What is the original wording?: And with the image the thinking man makes of the world, he also changes himself (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
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Cite this line

"Change your picture of the world and you change yourself." (Carl Jung, Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung' (1927), trans. H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/change-your-picture-of-the-world-and-you