C.G. Jung Quotes

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257 Quotes on Self-Discovery, Psyche, and Embracing Our True Selves

“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.”

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”

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

“The gods have become our diseases.”

“The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely… Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.”

“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”

“I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.”

“The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.”

“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”

“Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.”

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”

“Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.”

“Explore daily the will of God.”

“For better to come, good must stand aside.”

“I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.”

“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.”

“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”

“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

“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.”

“Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.”

“Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.”

“When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.”

“For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.”

“Creative power is mightier than its possessor.”

“We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.”

“Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.”

“Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”

“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

“The sure path can only lead to death.”

“Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”

“Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious”

“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.”

“His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.”

“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

“Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.”

“Everyone is in love with his own ideas”

“Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes.”

“Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.”

“One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.”

“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
Carl Jung

found in David Eagleman's book: Incognito”

“The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.”

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.”

“The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.

(on being 36 yrs old)”

“That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves”

“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”