Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

404. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

406. “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

407. “Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

410. “The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.”

— C.G. Jung

411. “The gods have become our diseases.”

— C.G. Jung

412. “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

413. “Even a lie is a psychic fact.”

— C.G. Jung

414. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

418. “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

419. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

421. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

423. “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

424. “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

425. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

427. “It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

430. “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

431. “To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.”

— C.G. Jung

432. “The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.”

— C.G. Jung

433. “Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.”

— C.G. Jung

434. “I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.”

— C.G. Jung

435. “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

436. “Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy – the mass never frees itself.”

— C.G. Jung

437. “Doesn’t the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?”

— C.G. Jung

438. “The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.”

— C.G. Jung

439. “In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

441. “If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.”

— C.G. Jung

442. “When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?”

— C.G. Jung

443. “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

444. “Dream the dream onward.”

— C.G. Jung

445. “Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

447. “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

448. “Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung