Every stage of life has its own truth.

What it means

What was right at twenty may be wrong at fifty, and the reverse. That is not hypocrisy; it is development. Live the truth of the stage you are in.

The source

"Every stage of life has its own truth." Carl Jung said it in Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Marriage as a Psychological Relationship' (1925). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"Thus it is that every period of life has its own psychological truth, its programmatic truth, one might say; and the same applies to every stage of psychological development."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Marriage as a Psychological Relationship' (1925). 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 "Every stage of life has its own truth." mean?

What was right at twenty may be wrong at fifty, and the reverse. That is not hypocrisy; it is development. Live the truth of the stage you are in.

Who said "Every stage of life has its own truth."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Marriage as a Psychological Relationship' (1925).

What is the original wording?

Thus it is that every period of life has its own psychological truth, its programmatic truth, one might say; and the same applies to every stage of psychological development (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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