Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

204. “Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.”

— C.G. Jung

205. “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

206. “There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.”

— C.G. Jung

207. “That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.”

— C.G. Jung

208. “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

209. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

211. “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

212. “We discover ourselves through others.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

214. “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

215. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

219. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

225. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

230. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

234. “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

235. “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

236. “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

237. “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

238. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

240. “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

241. “When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.”

— C.G. Jung

242. “My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

244. “In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.”

— C.G. Jung

245. “When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.”

— C.G. Jung

246. “The true leader is always led.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

248. “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

249. “The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.”

— C.G. Jung

250. “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