Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

203. “Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

205. “What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.”

— C.G. Jung

206. “Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.”

— C.G. Jung

207. “There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”

— C.G. Jung

208. “A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.”

— C.G. Jung

209. “What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.”

— C.G. Jung

210. “I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.”

— C.G. Jung

211. “Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.”

— C.G. Jung

212. “All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.”

— C.G. Jung

213. “Every human life contains a potential. If that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...”

— C.G. Jung

214. “It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear are the sources of the greatest wisdom.”

— C.G. Jung

215. “Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

217. “If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

— C.G. Jung

218. “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

219. “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

220. “In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.”

— C.G. Jung

221. “Deep down, below the surface of the average man’s conscience, he hears a voice whispering, “There is something not right,” no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.”

— C.G. Jung

222. “Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”

— C.G. Jung

223. “Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.”

— C.G. Jung

224. “Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

— C.G. Jung

225. “To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.”

— C.G. Jung

226. “Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego’s rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.”

— C.G. Jung

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227. “The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.”

— C.G. Jung

228. “The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.”

— C.G. Jung

229. “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

230. “The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.”

— C.G. Jung

231. “Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.”

— C.G. Jung

232. “For better to come, good must stand aside.”

— C.G. Jung

233. “A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.”

— C.G. Jung

234. “Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”

— C.G. Jung

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235. “The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.”

— C.G. Jung

236. “Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even.”

— C.G. Jung

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237. “It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.”

— C.G. Jung

238. “Without freedom there can be no morality.”

— C.G. Jung

239. “I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”

— C.G. Jung

240. “The true leader is always led.”

— C.G. Jung

241. “The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.”

— C.G. Jung

242. “Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”

— C.G. Jung

243. “In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious.”

— C.G. Jung

244. “Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.”

— C.G. Jung

245. “The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.”

— C.G. Jung

246. “The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.”

— C.G. Jung

247. “If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

— C.G. Jung

248. “I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”

— C.G. Jung

249. “Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.”

— C.G. Jung

250. “To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.”

— C.G. Jung