Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Only the wounded physician heals.”

— C.G. Jung

302. “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

303. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

305. “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

306. “It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.”

— C.G. Jung

307. “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

308. “One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

310. “I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

312. “Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.”

— C.G. Jung

313. “An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.”

— C.G. Jung

314. “People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

316. “The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.”

— C.G. Jung

317. “Words are animals, alive with a will of their own.”

— C.G. Jung

318. “The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.”

— C.G. Jung

319. “People cannot stand too much Reality.”

— C.G. Jung

320. “It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.”

— C.G. Jung

321. “Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.”

— C.G. Jung

322. “Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.”

— C.G. Jung

323. “Instinct is like Nature herself – prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.”

— C.G. Jung

324. “Creative power is mightier than its possessor.”

— C.G. Jung

325. “No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.”

— C.G. Jung

326. “A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.”

— C.G. Jung

327. “Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.”

— C.G. Jung

328. “The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.”

— C.G. Jung

329. “An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.”

— C.G. Jung

330. “The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.”

— C.G. Jung

331. “The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”

— C.G. Jung

332. “He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

333. “Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.”

— C.G. Jung

334. “The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.”

— C.G. Jung

335. “Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.”

— C.G. Jung

336. “The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.”

— C.G. Jung

337. “My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.”

— C.G. Jung

338. “The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.”

— C.G. Jung

339. “Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life...”

— C.G. Jung

340. “The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.”

— C.G. Jung

341. “A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.”

— C.G. Jung

342. “Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.”

— C.G. Jung

343. “Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”

— C.G. Jung

344. “The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.”

— C.G. Jung

345. “The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.”

— C.G. Jung

346. “Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche.”

— C.G. Jung

347. “Thank God I’m not a Jungian.”

— C.G. Jung

348. “Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.”

— C.G. Jung

349. “From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.”

— C.G. Jung

350. “The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.”

— C.G. Jung