The afternoon of life is as full of meaning as the morning.

What it means

Getting older is not the end of meaning, it is a change of meaning. The morning is for building a life, a family and a place in the world. The afternoon is for culture, inner work and understanding what it was all for.

The source

"The afternoon of life is as full of meaning as the morning." 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 afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning, only its meaning and purpose is a wholly different one."

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 "The afternoon of life is as full of meaning as the morning." mean?

Getting older is not the end of meaning, it is a change of meaning. The morning is for building a life, a family and a place in the world. The afternoon is for culture, inner work and understanding what it was all for.

Who said "The afternoon of life is as full of meaning as the morning."?

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 afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning, only its meaning and purpose is a wholly different one (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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