Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”

— C.G. Jung

2. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

— C.G. Jung

3. “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

— C.G. Jung

4. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

5. “What you resist, persists.”

— C.G. Jung

6. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

— C.G. Jung

7. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

8. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— C.G. Jung

9. “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

— C.G. Jung

10. “I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”

— C.G. Jung

11. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

— C.G. Jung

12. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

— C.G. Jung

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13. “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”

— C.G. Jung

14. “The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”

— C.G. Jung

15. “Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.”

— C.G. Jung

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16. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

— C.G. Jung

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17. “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”

— C.G. Jung

18. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

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19. “Shame is a soul eating emotion.”

— C.G. Jung

20. “Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”

— C.G. Jung

21. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

— C.G. Jung

22. “To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.”

— C.G. Jung

23. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— C.G. Jung

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24. “Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.”

— C.G. Jung

25. “Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know but need to know. Learn from them.”

— C.G. Jung

26. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”

— C.G. Jung

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27. “Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.”

— C.G. Jung

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28. “Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”

— C.G. Jung

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29. “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”

— C.G. Jung

30. “Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides.”

— C.G. Jung

31. “Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.”

— C.G. Jung

32. “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. ”

— C.G. Jung

33. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

— C.G. Jung

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34. “Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.”

— C.G. Jung

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35. “The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.”

— C.G. Jung

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36. “We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”

— C.G. Jung

37. “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

— C.G. Jung

38. “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ”

— C.G. Jung

39. “Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.”

— C.G. Jung

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40. “In every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.”

— C.G. Jung

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41. “Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

— C.G. Jung

42. “We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”

— C.G. Jung

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43. “The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.”

— C.G. Jung

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44. “Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.”

— C.G. Jung

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45. “The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.”

— C.G. Jung

46. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

— C.G. Jung

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47. “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

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48. “Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”

— C.G. Jung

49. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung