Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.”

— C.G. Jung

252. “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

253. “Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

255. “We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.”

— C.G. Jung

256. “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

257. “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

258. “Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.”

— C.G. Jung

259. “Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.”

— C.G. Jung

260. “Explore daily the will of God.”

— C.G. Jung

261. “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

262. “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

263. “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

264. “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

265. “Nothing is possible without love.”

— C.G. Jung

266. “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

267. “I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.”

— C.G. Jung

268. “Liverpool is the pool of life; it makes life lively.”

— C.G. Jung

269. “Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.”

— C.G. Jung

270. “Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.”

— C.G. Jung

271. “Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

273. “The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.”

— C.G. Jung

274. “In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.”

— C.G. Jung

275. “Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.”

— C.G. Jung

276. “But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.”

— C.G. Jung

277. “Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I’d never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.”

— C.G. Jung

278. “Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.”

— C.G. Jung

279. “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

280. “The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual.”

— C.G. Jung

281. “Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.”

— C.G. Jung

282. “Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

— C.G. Jung

283. “We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.”

— C.G. Jung

284. “The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.”

— C.G. Jung

285. “Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.”

— C.G. Jung

286. “Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.”

— C.G. Jung

287. “The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.”

— C.G. Jung

288. “Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.”

— C.G. Jung

289. “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”

— C.G. Jung

290. “The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one.”

— C.G. Jung

291. “Only the wounded physician heals.”

— C.G. Jung

292. “A sense of a wider meaning to one’s existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.”

— C.G. Jung

293. “We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.”

— C.G. Jung

294. “What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.”

— C.G. Jung

295. “The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.”

— C.G. Jung

296. “Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.”

— C.G. Jung

297. “The unconscious psyche believes in life after death.”

— C.G. Jung

298. “Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.”

— C.G. Jung

299. “The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.”

— C.G. Jung

300. “Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.”

— C.G. Jung

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