Top 52 Carl C Jung Quotes
#1. My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.
Carl Jung
#2. Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.
Carl Jung
#3. He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.
Carl Jung
#4. Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.
Carl Jung
#6. That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.
Carl Jung
#7. The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.
Carl Jung
#8. A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.
Carl Jung
#9. All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
Carl Jung
#10. The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
Carl Jung
#11. When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.
Carl Jung
#12. Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.
Carl Jung
#13. It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound ... Everything is mediated through the mind.
Carl Jung
#14. Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
Carl Jung
#15. Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
Carl Jung
#16. The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
Carl Jung
#17. Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth.
If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.
C. G. Jung
#18. ...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection.
C. G. Jung
#19. We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.
C. G. Jung
#20. In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
Carl Jung
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C. G. Jung
#21. I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!
C. G. Jung
#22. Reason becomes unreason when separated from the heart, and a psychic life void of universal ideas sickens from undernourishment. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Page 311.
C. G. Jung
#23. If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
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#24. Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.
C. G. Jung
#25. What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams,Carl Jung
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#26. ... the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
C. G. Jung
#27. If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.
Carl Jung
#28. Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.
Carl Jung
#29. Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.
Carl Jung
#30. All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.
Carl Jung
#31. Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.
Carl Jung
#32. Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.
Carl Jung
#33. Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
Carl Jung
#34. Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.
Carl Jung
#35. And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.
Carl Jung
#36. Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.
Carl Jung
#37. The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
Carl Jung
#38. It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
Carl Jung
#39. Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
Carl Jung
#40. Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man
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#41. For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
Carl Jung
#42. This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
Carl Jung
#43. Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
Carl Jung
#44. Ideas are not just counters used by the calculating mind; they are also golden vessels full of living feeling. "Freedom" is not a mere abstraction, it is also an emotion. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Pages 310-311.
C. G. Jung
#45. The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
Carl Jung
#46. The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
Carl Jung
#47. The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.
Carl Jung
#48. The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
Carl Jung
#49. All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
Carl Jung
#50. We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
Carl Jung
#51. Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.
Carl Jung
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