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

302. “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

303. “Explore daily the will of God.”

— C.G. Jung

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

307. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

310. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

312. “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

313. “People cannot stand too much Reality.”

— C.G. Jung

314. “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

315. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

319. “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

320. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

322. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

326. “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

327. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

331. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

333. “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

334. “Thank God I’m not a Jungian.”

— C.G. Jung

335. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

337. “We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

340. “When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.”

— C.G. Jung

341. “I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.”

— C.G. Jung

342. “What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”

— C.G. Jung

343. “Modern man is sick because he is not whole.”

— C.G. Jung

344. “The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.”

— C.G. Jung

345. “Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror.”

— C.G. Jung

346. “Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.”

— C.G. Jung

347. “Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.”

— C.G. Jung

348. “One cannot live without inconsistency.”

— C.G. Jung

349. “To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.”

— C.G. Jung

350. “It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return...”

— C.G. Jung