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Carl Jung Quotes & Sayings

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The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego. — Carl Jung

In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. — Carl Jung

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. — Carl Jung

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death — C. G. Jung

Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow. — Carl Jung

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves. — Carl Jung

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then! — Carl Jung

Modern man is sick because he is not whole. — Carl Jung

Life is crazy and meaningful at once. — Carl Jung

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness. — Carl Jung

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. — Carl Jung

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream. — Carl Jung

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. — Carl Jung

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same. — Carl Jung

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life. — Carl Jung

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

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life. — Carl Jung

I would rather be whole than good. — Carl Jung

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

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror — Carl Jung

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

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues. — Carl Jung

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. — Carl Jung

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious — Carl Jung

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

Without freedom there can be no morality. — Carl Jung

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. — Carl Jung

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities. — Carl Jung

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream." — Carl Jung

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men. — Carl Jung

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about. — Carl Jung

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. — Carl Jung

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas — Carl Jung

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out. — Carl Jung

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem. — Carl Jung

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon ... They become our legendary heroes. — Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. — Carl Jung

Meaning makes a great many things endurable
per haps everything. — Carl Jung

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. — Carl Jung

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful. — Carl Jung

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

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. — Carl Jung

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul — Carl Jung

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate. — Carl Jung

One must be able to let things happen. — Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. — Carl Jung

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life. — Carl Jung

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. — Carl Jung

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary. — Carl Jung

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. — Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. — Carl Jung

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. — Carl Jung

Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time. — Carl Jung

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul. — Carl Jung

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light. — Carl Jung

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit — Carl Jung

Consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates. — Carl Jung

Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man — Michael Finkel

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

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being. — Carl Jung

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are. — Carl Jung

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

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them. — Carl Jung

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides — Carl Jung

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes. — Carl Jung

You always become the thing you fight the most. — Carl Jung

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

Envy does not allow humanity to sleep. — Carl Jung

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

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep . — Carl Jung

Dawn is born at midnight. — Carl Jung

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. — Carl Jung

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves. — Carl Jung

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Jung

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. — Carl Jung

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. — Carl Jung

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived — Carl Jung

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. — Carl Jung

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

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment. — Carl Jung

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over. — Carl Jung

Dream the dream onward. — Carl Jung

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. — Carl Jung

Summoned or not, the god will come. — Carl Jung

Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought. — Carl Jung

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. — Carl Jung

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts. — Carl Jung

Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing. — Carl Jung

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken. — Carl Jung

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche. — Carl Jung

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form. — Carl Jung

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books. — Carl Jung

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality. — Carl Jung

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. — Carl Jung

The greatest sin is to be unconscious. — Carl Jung

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches. — Carl Jung

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. — Carl Jung