Top 500 C.G. Jung Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Error is just as important a condition of life’s progress as truth.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

404. “All neurotics seek the religious.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

406. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

408. “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

409. “Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.”

— C.G. Jung

410. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

413. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

415. “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

416. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

419. “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

420. “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

421. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

424. “Dream the dream onward.”

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

426. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

428. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

434. “The gods have become our diseases.”

— C.G. Jung

435. “Even a lie is a psychic fact.”

— C.G. Jung

436. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

438. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

440. “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

441. “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

442. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

444. “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

445. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— C.G. Jung

448. “From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.”

— C.G. Jung

449. “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

450. “I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.”

— C.G. Jung