Top 100 Jung Carl Quotes
#1. Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.
Carl Jung
#2. Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?
Carl Jung
#3. Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.
Carl Jung
#4. The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl Jung
#5. When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Jung
#6. You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
Carl Jung
#7. We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos- the right moment- for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.
Carl Jung
#8. The Jews should not have resisted Hitler ... They should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.
Carl Jung
#9. In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.
Carl Jung
#10. It is not that something different is seen, but that one sees differently. It is as though the spatial act of seeing were changed by a new dimension. - Carl Jung I
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#11. Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.
Carl Jung
#12. You always become the thing you fight the most.
Carl Jung
#13. Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Jung
#14. Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even
Carl Jung
#15. The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
Carl Jung
#16. It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.
Carl Jung
#17. If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important
Carl Jung
#18. The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.
Carl Jung
#19. The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.
Carl Jung
#20. The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
Carl Jung
#21. We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods
Carl Jung
#22. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
#23. So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.
Carl Jung
#24. Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
#25. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
#26. All neurotics seek the religious
Carl Jung
#27. We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.
Carl Jung
#28. The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not - which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.
Carl Jung
#29. The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
Carl Jung
#30. Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.
Carl Jung
#31. But the meaning of life is not ... explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.
Carl Jung
#32. A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.
Carl Jung
#33. As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.
Carl Jung
#34. Simple things are always the most difficult.
Carl Jung
#35. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
#36. To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
Carl Jung
#37. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.
Carl Jung
#38. All fanaticism is repressed doubt.
Carl Jung
#39. Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.
Carl Jung
#40. If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
#41. Carl Jung put it this way: "The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises." With
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#42. A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
Carl Jung
#43. The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Jung
#44. The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
Carl Jung
#45. What we lack is intensity of life.
Carl Jung
#46. A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.
Carl Jung
#47. Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most
we can hope for is excellence.
Carl Jung
#48. Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.
Carl Jung
#49. One cannot live without inconsistency.
Carl Jung
#50. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.
Carl Jung
#51. Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
Carl Jung
#52. Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.
Carl Jung
#53. We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
Carl Jung
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
Carl Jung
#58. The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
Carl Jung
#59. 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
#60. Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.
Carl Jung
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#65. 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
#66. The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
Carl Jung
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
Carl Jung
#71. Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.
Carl Jung
#72. Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.
Carl Jung
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.
Carl Jung
#78. Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
Carl Jung
#79. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
#80. Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
Carl Jung
#81. We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
#82. Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.
Carl Jung
#83. The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.
Carl Jung
#84. Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.
Carl Jung
#85. The greatest sin is to be unconscious.
Carl Jung
#86. Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
Carl Jung
#87. 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
#88. It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound ... Everything is mediated through the mind.
Carl Jung
#89. Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man
Michael Finkel
#90. 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
#91. The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
Carl Jung
#92. All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
Carl Jung
#93. 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
#94. The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.
Carl Jung
#95. That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.
Carl Jung
#97. 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
#98. He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.
Carl Jung
#99. Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.
Carl Jung
#100. Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
Carl Jung
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