C.G. Jung Quotes

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

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

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

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

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.

Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

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

Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

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

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

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

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

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

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

I do not believe...I know.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

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.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

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

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

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

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

Dawn is born at midnight.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.