Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

352. “Thank God I’m not a Jungian.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

354. “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

355. “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

356. “Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.”

— C.G. Jung

357. “Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.”

— C.G. Jung

358. “I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.”

— C.G. Jung

359. “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

360. “Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable – perh aps everything.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

362. “One is always in the dark about one’s own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.”

— C.G. Jung

363. “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

364. “Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.”

— C.G. Jung

365. “Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.”

— C.G. Jung

366. “To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.”

— C.G. Jung

367. “The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc...”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

369. “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

370. “All neurotics seek the religious.”

— C.G. Jung

371. “A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.”

— C.G. Jung

372. “Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.”

— C.G. Jung

373. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

375. “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

376. “The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

378. “One cannot live without inconsistency.”

— C.G. Jung

379. “Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.”

— C.G. Jung

380. “Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.”

— C.G. Jung

381. “Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.”

— C.G. Jung

382. “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

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383. “The sure path can only lead to death.”

— C.G. Jung

384. “Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.”

— C.G. Jung

385. “The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.”

— C.G. Jung

386. “Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.”

— C.G. Jung

387. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.”

— C.G. Jung

388. “Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”

— C.G. Jung

389. “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”

— C.G. Jung

390. “What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived.”

— C.G. Jung

391. “At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.”

— C.G. Jung

392. “If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.”

— C.G. Jung

393. “Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”

— C.G. Jung

394. “Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.”

— C.G. Jung

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395. “Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.”

— C.G. Jung

396. “Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.”

— C.G. Jung

397. “Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”

— C.G. Jung

398. “Dream the dream onward.”

— C.G. Jung

399. “Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.”

— C.G. Jung

400. “Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.”

— C.G. Jung