Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

154. “The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one’s whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.”

— C.G. Jung

155. “Life is crazy and meaningful at once.”

— C.G. Jung

156. “Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.”

— C.G. Jung

157. “All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.”

— C.G. Jung

158. “The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”

— C.G. Jung

159. “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.”

— C.G. Jung

160. “Our unconscious is the key to our life’s pursuits.”

— C.G. Jung

161. “The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.”

— C.G. Jung

162. “One finds one’s destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.”

— C.G. Jung

163. “The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul...”

— C.G. Jung

164. “The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.”

— C.G. Jung

165. “Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.”

— C.G. Jung

166. “When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.”

— C.G. Jung

167. “Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror.”

— C.G. Jung

168. “For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.”

— C.G. Jung

169. “Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.”

— C.G. Jung

170. “Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.”

— C.G. Jung

171. “The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.”

— C.G. Jung

172. “Dawn is born at midnight.”

— C.G. Jung

173. “In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.”

— C.G. Jung

174. “Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”

— C.G. Jung

175. “What we lack is intensity of life.”

— C.G. Jung

176. “You always become the thing you fight the most.”

— C.G. Jung

177. “We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”

— C.G. Jung

178. “The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

— C.G. Jung

179. “In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.”

— C.G. Jung

180. “The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.”

— C.G. Jung

181. “A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

— C.G. Jung

182. “Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.”

— C.G. Jung

183. “Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

186. “Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know.”

— C.G. Jung

187. “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.”

— C.G. Jung

188. “The greatest sin is to be unconscious.”

— C.G. Jung

189. “Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.”

— C.G. Jung

190. “Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit.”

— C.G. Jung

191. “The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine.”

— C.G. Jung

192. “As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.”

— C.G. Jung

193. “Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.”

— C.G. Jung

194. “The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.”

— C.G. Jung

195. “The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.”

— C.G. Jung

196. “A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.”

— C.G. Jung

197. “The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.”

— C.G. Jung

198. “Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.”

— C.G. Jung

199. “In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.”

— C.G. Jung

200. “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.”

— C.G. Jung