Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “Nothing is possible without love.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

256. “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

257. “The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.”

— C.G. Jung

258. “Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

260. “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

261. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

263. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

265. “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

266. “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

267. “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

268. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

272. “Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.”

— C.G. Jung

273. “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

274. “Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

— C.G. Jung

275. “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

276. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

280. “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

281. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

283. “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

284. “When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.”

— C.G. Jung

285. “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

286. “One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.”

— C.G. Jung

287. “No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.”

— C.G. Jung

288. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

291. “Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”

— C.G. Jung

292. “Only the wounded physician heals.”

— C.G. Jung

293. “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

294. “The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.”

— C.G. Jung

295. “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

296. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

299. “I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.”

— C.G. Jung

300. “My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.”

— C.G. Jung