Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.”

— C.G. Jung

402. “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

403. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

405. “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

406. “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

407. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

409. “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

410. “Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

416. “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”

— C.G. Jung

417. “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

418. “Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.”

— C.G. Jung

419. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

422. “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

423. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

425. “Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.”

— C.G. Jung

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426. “I have always said to my pupils: “Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream.””

— C.G. Jung

427. “The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...”

— C.G. Jung

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428. “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

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429. “Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas.”

— C.G. Jung

430. “Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.”

— C.G. Jung

431. “I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.”

— C.G. Jung

432. “I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.”

— C.G. Jung

433. “No concept is a carrier of life.”

— C.G. Jung

434. “Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.”

— C.G. Jung

435. “In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.”

— C.G. Jung

436. “Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.”

— C.G. Jung

437. “Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

— C.G. Jung

438. “The gods have become our diseases.”

— C.G. Jung

439. “The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.”

— C.G. Jung

440. “Even a lie is a psychic fact.”

— C.G. Jung

441. “A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.”

— C.G. Jung

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442. “But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.”

— C.G. Jung

443. “The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us.”

— C.G. Jung

444. “One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it.”

— C.G. Jung

445. “The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not – which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.”

— C.G. Jung

446. “No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.”

— C.G. Jung

447. “It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.”

— C.G. Jung

448. “Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.”

— C.G. Jung

449. “There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance – almost any sort of spiritual guidance.”

— C.G. Jung

450. “One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.”

— C.G. Jung