Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
• Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." - Meaning and context.">

Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
• Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

— Carl Jung

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
• Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." in the context of "P. 97" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Carl Jung" (Quotes, The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943): German title Über die Psychologie des Unbewussten. Not to be confused with Psychology of the Unconscious, which was translated in 1916 from the German Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido published in 1912.) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Carl Jung

About Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (IPA: ˈkarl ˈgʊstaf ˈjʊŋ) (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology.