Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.”

— C.G. Jung

102. “Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”

— C.G. Jung

103. “It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.”

— C.G. Jung

104. “What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.”

— C.G. Jung

105. “If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”

— C.G. Jung

106. “This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”

— C.G. Jung

107. “Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

— C.G. Jung

108. “We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.”

— C.G. Jung

109. “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also, if I am to be whole.”

— C.G. Jung

110. “The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?”

— C.G. Jung

111. “I would rather be whole than good.”

— C.G. Jung

112. “A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.”

— C.G. Jung

113. “The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.”

— C.G. Jung

114. “The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind’s evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.”

— C.G. Jung

115. “Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”

— C.G. Jung

116. “Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.”

— C.G. Jung

117. “If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.”

— C.G. Jung

118. “It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

— C.G. Jung

119. “The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.”

— C.G. Jung

120. “We don’t get wounded alone and we don’t heal alone.”

— C.G. Jung

121. “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

— C.G. Jung

122. “Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.”

— C.G. Jung

123. “To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.”

— C.G. Jung

124. “We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.”

— C.G. Jung

125. “Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.”

— C.G. Jung

126. “The whole point of Jesus’s life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.”

— C.G. Jung

127. “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”

— C.G. Jung

128. “If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.”

— C.G. Jung

129. “If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.”

— C.G. Jung

130. “We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.”

— C.G. Jung

131. “All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.”

— C.G. Jung

132. “The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, “divine.””

— C.G. Jung

133. “Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.”

— C.G. Jung

134. “Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.”

— C.G. Jung

135. “Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

— C.G. Jung

136. “The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”

— C.G. Jung

137. “We don’t really heal anything; we simply let it go.”

— C.G. Jung

138. “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

— C.G. Jung

139. “Summoned or not, the god will come.”

— C.G. Jung

140. “When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.”

— C.G. Jung

141. “Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.”

— C.G. Jung

142. “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.”

— C.G. Jung

143. “There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.”

— C.G. Jung

144. “The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.”

— C.G. Jung

145. “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

— C.G. Jung

146. “The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”

— C.G. Jung

147. “The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.”

— C.G. Jung

148. “Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.”

— C.G. Jung

149. “Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”

— C.G. Jung

150. “Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.”

— C.G. Jung