Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “Nothing is possible without love.”

— C.G. Jung

254. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

260. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

263. “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

264. “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

265. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

268. “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

269. “Explore daily the will of God.”

— C.G. Jung

270. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

272. “Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

— C.G. Jung

273. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

280. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

282. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

284. “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

285. “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

286. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

288. “Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.”

— C.G. Jung

289. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

294. “Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.”

— C.G. Jung

295. “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

296. “Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.”

— C.G. Jung

297. “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

298. “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

299. “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

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

— C.G. Jung