Jung's Quotes

#1. In short, Jung's insights need to be considered as one of the latest and greatest manifestations of the stream of alternative spirituality which descends from the Gnostics.130

C. G. Jung

#2. I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Jung's search for the soul, then, stands at one with the search for appropriately dialogical and differentiated language.

C. G. Jung

#4. I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.

Sigmar Polke

#5. Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.

George Jung

#6. Somewhere, right at the bottom of one's own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call "I" behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

C. G. Jung

#7. One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

Carl Jung

#8. I think I've become more understanding of people around me compared to before. I try to understand other people's tendencies and relationships. I've been able to laugh off a lot of things between myself and others, but it's still difficult trying to look at things from their perspectives.

Jessica Jung

#9. Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

C. G. Jung

#10. A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.

Andrea Jung

#11. Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

C. G. Jung

#12. A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Carl Jung

#13. Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

Carl Jung

#14. I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was.

George Jung

#15. I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.

George Jung

#16. China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.

Andrea Jung

#17. Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Carl Jung

#18. We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.

Andrea Jung

#19. 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.

Carl Jung

#20. In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
Carl Jung
found in David Eagleman's book: Incognito

C. G. Jung

#21. As Jung says more clearly of Christ: This Gnostic Christ ... symbolizes man's original unity and exalts it as the saving goal of his development. By composing

C. G. Jung

#22. The more critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes. When reason is overvalued, the individual suffers a loss. Relying more on facts and rationality than on imagination and theory detracts from the quality of a person's intellectual life.

C. G. Jung

#23. How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

C. G. Jung

#24. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Andrea Jung

#25. Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

C. G. Jung

#26. There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

Andrea Jung

#27. The next day he went to the archbishop and told him that he was resolved to go out into the world to preach the gospel of God's unending mercy.

C. G. Jung

#28. ... the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

C. G. Jung

#29. The seat of faith ... is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

Carl Jung

#30. For entertainment there were only Mao Thought Propaganda Teams, who sang Mao's quotations set to raucous music.

Jung Chang

#31. There as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose it's meaning if it were not balanced by sadness- Carl Jung

Jessica Shirvington

#32. Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Carl Jung

#33. To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being and does not rise to personality, he has failed to realize his life's meaning. Fortunately,

C. G. Jung

#34. Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.

Andrea Jung

#35. There's no coming to consciousness without pain.

C. G. Jung

#36. I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

Carl Jung

#37. The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.

Carl Jung

#38. We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

C. G. Jung

#39. So, it's really about modeling it and letting people know you are an inspired person, a person who is in spirit, and then those forces that Carl Jung called synchronicity begin to show up and, lo and behold, the universe provides for you.

Wayne Dyer

#40. The golden apples drop from the same tree, whether they be gathered by an imbecile locksmith's apprentice or by a Schopenhauer.

C. G. Jung

#41. Smoking marijuana - or most everybody who smokes marijuana deals it in small amounts to their friends, innocently enough. I think it's innocently enough.

George Jung

#42. A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

Carl Jung

#43. Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.

C. G. Jung

#44. When I look at her, my heart brightens up. She's that kind of girl.

Lee Jung-jae

#45. Anyone can say the love someone ... It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love.

Jessica Jung

#46. My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother ... first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.

Jung Chang

#47. It is just man's turning away from instinct
his opposing himself to instinct
that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

Carl Jung

#48. When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

Carl Jung

#49. I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career.

Andrea Jung

#50. That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.

George Jung

#51. Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Carl Jung

#52. Jung Min's palms are always sweating and he wears strange socks!

Kim Hyung-jun

#53. Communion gives us warmth.
Singleness gives us light.
At immeasurable distance stands one single star at the zenith.
This star is the God and goal of humanity.
In this world one is Abraxas,
creater and destroyer of one's world.

C. G. Jung

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.

C. G. Jung

#57. I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.

Elliott Abrams

#58. 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

#59. I used to drink from my little sister's bottle when she was a baby.

Jessica Jung

#60. At twenty two, he didn't have the foresight to understand how one decision could affect so many others. Now that he's older and everything has settled into a just-tolerable state of atrophy, the options he once had-options that his young students still have- feel like they've passed him by.

Jung Yun

#61. You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Carl Jung

#62. 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

#63. Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?

C. G. Jung

#64. President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

Andrea Jung

#65. Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

Carl Jung

#66. That the gods die from time to time is due to man's sudden discovery that they do not mean anything, that they are made by human hands, useless idols of wood and stone.

C. G. Jung

#67. Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.

Andrea Jung

#68. So the story of Wild Fox Kang's attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the 1980s, when Chinese scholars discovered in Japanese archives the testimony of the designated killer, Bi, which established beyond doubt the existence of the plot.

Jung Chang

#69. The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

Carl Jung

#70. The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Carl Jung

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

Kim Dae-jung

#75. Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle,

George Jung

#76. Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man

Michael Finkel

#77. There is a streetlight in front of Soo Yeon's house. From there to home, it takes 280 steps. If we have been walking away from each other for 14 years, how many steps will it take to get back? If she doesn't come even if I wait, that doesn't mean that she abandoned me.. it means she is on her way.

Ha Jung-woo

#78. 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

#79. Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.

Frank Herbert

#80. Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

Carl Jung

#81. The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.

C. G. Jung

#82. It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.

Jung Chang

#83. When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

Andrea Jung

#84. One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

Carl Jung

#85. (In fact, passion that goes beyond the natural measure of love ultimately aims at the mystery of becoming whole, and this is why one feels, when he has fallen passionately in love, that becoming one with the other person is the only worthwhile goal of one's life.)

C. G. Jung

#86. As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me ... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop.

Carl Jung

#87. We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.

Carl Jung

#88. I'd like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even when you watch all the way through the end of a drama, you remember the actor's name, not the character's. I want my character's name to be more remembered than mine.

Jung So-min

#89. Weekends are best when there's nothing to do and no one to see.

Jung Yun

#90. Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.

Carl Jung

#91. The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world's answer.

C. G. Jung

#92. Wherever the creative power of desire is, there springs the soil's own seed. But do not forget to wait.

C. G. Jung

#93. The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

Carl Jung

#94. It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods.

Andrea Jung

#95. Man's unconscious ... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

Carl Jung

#96. Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

Viggo Mortensen

#97. It is particularly in contacts with people of the same sex that one stumbles over both one's own shadow and those of other people. Although we do see the shadow in a person of the opposite sex, we are usually much less annoyed by it and can more easily pardon it.

C. G. Jung

#98. The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

C. G. Jung

#99. Indeed, I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope, my mind's eye a mirror that reflects a small corner of the world, and my ideas
a subjective confession.

C. G. Jung

#100. In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Carl Jung