Morning to afternoon is a revaluation of every earlier value.

Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'

What it means

At midlife the things you chased start to look different. Some still hold, some turn out to be half true. Taking honest stock of them is the work of the turn.

The source

"Morning to afternoon is a revaluation of every earlier value." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"The transition from morning to afternoon is a revaluation of earlier values."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'. 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 "Morning to afternoon is a revaluation of every earlier value." mean?: At midlife the things you chased start to look different. Some still hold, some turn out to be half true. Taking honest stock of them is the work of the turn.
Who said "Morning to afternoon is a revaluation of every earlier value."?: Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'.
What is the original wording?: The transition from morning to afternoon is a revaluation of earlier values (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
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Cite this line

"Morning to afternoon is a revaluation of every earlier value." (Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious', trans. H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/morning-to-afternoon-is-a-revaluation-of-every