Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Magic is the science of the jungle.”

— C.G. Jung

203. “A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

205. “I don’t aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

211. “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

212. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

214. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

216. “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

217. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

220. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

222. “It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

224. “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

225. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

236. “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

237. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

239. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

242. “The true leader is always led.”

— C.G. Jung

243. “The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.”

— C.G. Jung

244. “Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The “newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.”

— C.G. Jung

245. “I live in my deepest hell and from there I cannot fall any further.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

248. “Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!”

— C.G. Jung

249. “Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

— C.G. Jung

250. “It is just man’s turning away from instinct – his opposing himself to instinct – that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.”

— C.G. Jung