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

352. “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

353. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

355. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

357. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

360. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

362. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

367. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

369. “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

370. “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

371. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

375. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

378. “All neurotics seek the religious.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

380. “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

381. “Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.”

— C.G. Jung

382. “The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

384. “Not nature, but the “genius of mankind,” has knotted the hangman’s noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

386. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

388. “However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.”

— C.G. Jung

389. “Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.”

— C.G. Jung

390. “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

391. “The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.”

— C.G. Jung

392. “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

393. “Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.”

— C.G. Jung

394. “I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

396. “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

397. “The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

399. “The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.”

— C.G. Jung

400. “You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him others in return.”

— C.G. Jung