Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

353. “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

354. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

357. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

360. “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

361. “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

362. “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

363. “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

364. “One cannot live without inconsistency.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

368. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

370. “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

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

376. “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

377. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

379. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

383. “My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.”

— C.G. Jung

384. “A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.”

— C.G. Jung

385. “You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.”

— C.G. Jung

386. “No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep .”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

388. “And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.”

— C.G. Jung

389. “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

390. “The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.”

— C.G. Jung

391. “We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.”

— C.G. Jung

392. “To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

395. “Psychological type is nothing static – it changes in the course of life.”

— C.G. Jung

396. “God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts – God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

398. “Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot.”

— C.G. Jung

399. “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

400. “Error is just as important a condition of life’s progress as truth.”

— C.G. Jung