Carl Jung

Carl JungCarl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. [Українська] [Русский]

Carl Jung Quotes

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

—Carl Jung

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

—Carl Jung

Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

—Carl Jung

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.

I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

—Carl Jung

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.

I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

—Carl Jung

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

—Carl Jung

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

—Carl Jung

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’

—Carl Jung

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’

—Carl Jung

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

—Carl Jung

No language exists that cannot be misused..

Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

—Carl Jung

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

—Carl Jung

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.

—Carl Jung

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

—Carl Jung

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

—Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling.

Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

—Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling.

Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

—Carl Jung

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.

The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

—Carl Jung

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.

The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

—Carl Jung

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..

We know nothing of man, far too little.

His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

—Carl Jung

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..

We know nothing of man, far too little.

His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

—Carl Jung

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

—Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

—Carl Jung

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

—Carl Jung

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.

—Carl Jung

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear.

One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

—Carl Jung

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear.

One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

—Carl Jung

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

—Carl Jung

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche.

Consciousness is a precondition of being.

—Carl Jung

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche.

Consciousness is a precondition of being.

—Carl Jung