Persona, the mask or image we present to the world. Designed to make a particular impression on others, while concealing our true… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and...each step forward has been a most painful and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — 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
The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — 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
Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the… — 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
![“The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.” quote by Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/251/carl-jung-274_defined_the-self-is-defined-psychologically-as-t_7148.jpg)
