Quotes About Carl Jung

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

Michael Finkel

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.

Michael Gurian

#6. What is a normal goal to a young person becomes a neurotic hindrance in old age. - CARL JUNG No wise person ever wanted to be younger. - NATIVE AMERICAN APHORISM

Richard Rohr

#7. Do you want to be good or do you want to be whole? - Carl Jung

Lee Lipsenthal

#8. The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.' Have I answered your question?

Stephen King

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

C. G. Jung

#10. Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph Campbell. Because we all take archetypal journeys in a million ways - literal, symbolic, you name it - that figure, disfigure, and refigure violence.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#11. 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

#12. If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

C. G. Jung

#13. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.

David Mitchell

#15. Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.

Anthony Hopkins

#16. 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

#17. Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

Donald O. Clifton

#18. Carl Jung put it, "In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

David Eagleman

#19. Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.

David Richo

#20. 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

#21. 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

C. G. Jung

#22. You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

Deepak Chopra

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

Carl Jung

#27. Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

Carl Jung

#28. Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

Carl Jung

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

Carl Jung

#33. 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

#34. Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

Carl Jung

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

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

Carl Jung

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Carl Jung

#45. Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

Carl Jung

#46. Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

Carl Jung

#47. Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Carl Jung

#48. Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

Carl Jung

#49. He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Carl Jung

#50. 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

#51. I do not believe ... I know.

Carl Jung

#52. That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Carl Jung

#53. The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

Carl Jung

#54. 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

#55. All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

Carl Jung

#56. The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

Carl Jung

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound ... Everything is mediated through the mind.

Carl Jung

#60. 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

#61. Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

Carl Jung

#62. The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

Carl Jung

#63. Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

Carl Jung

#64. 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

#65. Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

Carl Jung

#66. We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

#67. Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Carl Jung

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

Carl Jung

#71. 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

#72. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

#73. Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Carl Jung

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

Carl Jung

#79. The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

Carl Jung

#80. 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

#81. It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Carl Jung

#82. The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

Carl Jung

#83. Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.

Carl Jung

#84. Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Carl Jung

#85. You always become the thing you fight the most.

Carl Jung

#86. Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

Carl Jung

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

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

Carl Jung

#91. When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Carl Jung

#92. The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Carl Jung

#93. Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Carl Jung

#94. Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

Carl Jung

#95. 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

#96. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

Carl Jung

#97. One cannot live without inconsistency.

Carl Jung

#98. 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

#99. Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most
we can hope for is excellence.

Carl Jung

#100. A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

Carl Jung