The Best Carl Jung quotes

Dream the dream onward. — Carl Jung

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken. — Carl Jung

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed. — Carl Jung

I have always said to my pupils: ‘Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream. — Carl Jung

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes. — Carl Jung

The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens. — Carl Jung

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day. — Carl Jung

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention To deceive but expresses something as best it can. — Carl Jung

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference. — Carl Jung

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches. — Carl Jung

We have forgotten the age–old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. — Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. — Carl Jung

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown. — Carl Jung

Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream… It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death. — Carl Jung

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. — Carl Jung

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. — Carl Jung

In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. — Carl Jung

We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws. — Carl Jung

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning. — Carl Jung

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul. — Carl Jung

Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul. — Carl Jung

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream. — Carl Jung

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

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination. — Carl Jung

Man cannot stand a meaningless life. — Carl Jung

Life is crazy and meaningful at once. — Carl Jung

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life. — Carl Jung

What we lack is intensity of life. — Carl Jung

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. — Carl Jung

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one. — Carl Jung

No concept is a carrier of life. — Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. — Carl Jung

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate. — Carl Jung

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents. — C.G. Jung

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. — C.G. Jung

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

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about. — Carl Jung

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness. — Carl Jung

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness. — Carl Jung

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life. — Carl Jung

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. — Carl Jung

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life. — Carl Jung

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live. — Carl Jung

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. — Carl Jung

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. — Carl Jung

Psychological type is nothing static–it changes in the course of life. — Carl Jung

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. — C.G. Jung

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living. — Carl Jung

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. — Carl Jung

Nature has no use for the plea that one ‘did not know’. — Carl Jung

Not nature, but the ‘genius of mankind,’ has knotted the hangman’s noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. — Carl Jung

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit — Carl Jung

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. — Carl Jung

The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things. — Carl Jung

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly.’ from the video ‘Carl Jung speaks about death — Carl Jung

Instinct is like Nature herself–prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung

Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation. — Carl Jung

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate. — Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. — Carl Jung

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness. — Carl Jung

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness. — Carl Jung

Consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates. — Carl Jung

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny. — Carl Jung

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness. — Carl Jung

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. — Carl Jung

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals. — Carl Jung

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness. — Carl Jung

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. — Carl Jung

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual’s faith into immediate relation with God. — Carl Jung

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

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body — Carl Jung

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

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one. — Carl Jung

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate. — Carl Jung

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate. — Carl Jung

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. — Carl Jung

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then! — Carl Jung

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. — Carl Jung

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. — Carl Jung

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate. — C.G. Jung

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. — Carl Jung

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new. — Carl Jung

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality. — Carl Jung

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. — C.G. Jung

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well–meant intentions. — Carl Jung

A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities. — Carl Jung

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

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves. — Carl Jung

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

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. — C.G. Jung

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. — Carl Jung

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out… the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi–human pilots. — Carl Jung

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

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. — Carl Jung

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. — Carl Jung

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand. — Carl Jung

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles. — Carl Jung

Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal. — Carl Jung

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. — Carl Jung

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found–given–by experience. — C.G. Jung

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

Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time. — Carl Jung

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times. — Carl Jung

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul. — Carl Jung

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference. — Carl Jung

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. — Carl Jung

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. — Carl Jung