Carl Jung Quotes

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

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

I do not believe...I know.

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

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

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

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

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

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

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

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

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

Dawn is born at midnight.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

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

We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

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

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

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

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.