Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“There are no problems without consciousness. ..., in what way does consciousness arise? Nobody can say with certainty; but we can observe… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is. — Carl Jung Copy Share
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him… — Carl Jung Copy Share
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share
“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living… — Carl Jung Copy Share
People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind. — Carl Jung Copy Share
