It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist… — 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
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
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead… — 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
Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/251/carl-jung-274_defined_the-self-is-defined-psychologically-as-t_7148.jpg)
