Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.”

— C.G. Jung

452. “Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.”

— C.G. Jung

453. “I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

455. “Doesn’t the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?”

— C.G. Jung

456. “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.”

— C.G. Jung

457. “If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.”

— C.G. Jung

458. “When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?”

— C.G. Jung

459. “Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.”

— C.G. Jung

460. “The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.”

— C.G. Jung

461. “Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”

— C.G. Jung

462. “But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.”

— C.G. Jung

463. “For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.”

— C.G. Jung

464. “What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.”

— C.G. Jung

465. “The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.”

— C.G. Jung

466. “The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice.”

— C.G. Jung

467. “Plato’s world of ideas is beautiful.”

— C.G. Jung

468. “Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.”

— C.G. Jung

469. “When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.”

— C.G. Jung

470. “The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.”

— C.G. Jung

471. “Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.”

— C.G. Jung

472. “His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.”

— C.G. Jung

473. “Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.”

— C.G. Jung

474. “If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.”

— C.G. Jung

475. “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.”

— C.G. Jung

476. “There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.”

— C.G. Jung

477. “Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”

— C.G. Jung

478. “Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.”

— C.G. Jung

479. “Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.”

— C.G. Jung

480. “One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.”

— C.G. Jung

481. “I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.”

— C.G. Jung

482. “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.”

— C.G. Jung

483. “An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.”

— C.G. Jung

484. “Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.”

— C.G. Jung

485. “The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of ‘participation mystique’ – to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual...”

— C.G. Jung

486. “Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.”

— C.G. Jung

487. “I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.”

— C.G. Jung

488. “Hitler’s movement is near to Mohammedanism.”

— C.G. Jung

489. “The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord.”

— C.G. Jung

490. “A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.”

— C.G. Jung

491. “Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.”

— C.G. Jung

492. “Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.”

— C.G. Jung

493. “I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni.”

— C.G. Jung

494. “The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.”

— C.G. Jung

495. “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

496. “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.”

— C.G. Jung

497. “St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.”

— C.G. Jung

498. “During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary.”

— C.G. Jung

499. “Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.”

— C.G. Jung

500. “Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.”

— C.G. Jung