Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”

— C.G. Jung

52. “Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.”

— C.G. Jung

53. “The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.”

— C.G. Jung

54. “Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.”

— C.G. Jung

55. “Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”

— C.G. Jung

56. “Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.”

— C.G. Jung

57. “The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.”

— C.G. Jung

58. “When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.”

— C.G. Jung

59. “Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.”

— C.G. Jung

60. “God enters through the wound.”

— C.G. Jung

61. “The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

— C.G. Jung

62. “To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”

— C.G. Jung

63. “The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”

— C.G. Jung

64. “All fanaticism is repressed doubt.”

— C.G. Jung

65. “One must be able to let things happen.”

— C.G. Jung

66. “Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

— C.G. Jung

67. “Called or not, God is always there.”

— C.G. Jung

68. “Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.”

— C.G. Jung

69. “The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.”

— C.G. Jung

70. “We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.”

— C.G. Jung

71. “Religion is a defense against the experience of God.”

— C.G. Jung

72. “That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.”

— C.G. Jung

73. “Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”

— C.G. Jung

74. “The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

— C.G. Jung

75. “Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”

— C.G. Jung

76. “Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.”

— C.G. Jung

77. “The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”

— C.G. Jung

78. “The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.”

— C.G. Jung

79. “As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

— C.G. Jung

80. “Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent.”

— C.G. Jung

81. “The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.”

— C.G. Jung

82. “Everyone can afford to give away a smile.”

— C.G. Jung

83. “We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.”

— C.G. Jung

84. “Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”

— C.G. Jung

85. “Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.”

— C.G. Jung

86. “What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved – what then?”

— C.G. Jung

87. “Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

89. “The world of gods and spirits is truly ‘nothing but’ the collective unconscious inside me.”

— C.G. Jung

90. “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.”

— C.G. Jung

91. “Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.”

— C.G. Jung

92. “The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.”

— C.G. Jung

93. “The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.”

— C.G. Jung

94. “We want to have certainties and no doubts – results and no experiments – without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only through experiment.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

96. “We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”

— C.G. Jung

97. “Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one’s own being.”

— C.G. Jung

98. “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

— C.G. Jung

99. “It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail.”

— C.G. Jung

100. “I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.”

— C.G. Jung