Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

303. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

305. “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

306. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

308. “People cannot stand too much Reality.”

— C.G. Jung

309. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

315. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

317. “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

318. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

320. “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

321. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

324. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

326. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

331. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

334. “It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.”

— C.G. Jung

335. “To make what fate intends for me my own intention.”

— C.G. Jung

336. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

339. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

341. “Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.”

— C.G. Jung

342. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

344. “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

345. “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

346. “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

347. “Colors express the main psychic functions of man.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

349. “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

350. “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