Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

304. “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

305. “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

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. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

309. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

316. “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

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. “Creative power is mightier than its possessor.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

325. “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

326. “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

327. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

332. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

334. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

336. “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

337. “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

338. “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

339. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

342. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

344. “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

345. “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

346. “Thank God I’m not a Jungian.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

348. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung