Humans Quotes by Carl Jung

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

— Carl Jung

It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots...

— Carl Jung

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the…

— Carl Jung

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern,…

— Carl Jung

So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to…

— Carl Jung

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

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to…

— Carl Jung

If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not…

— Carl Jung

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing…

— Carl Jung

Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the…

— Carl Jung

It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory…

— Carl Jung

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a…

— Carl Jung

Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is…

— Carl Jung

Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no…

— Carl Jung

Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many…

— Carl Jung

Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this…

— Carl Jung

Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us…

— Carl Jung

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in…

— Carl Jung

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the…

— Carl Jung

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid…

— Carl Jung

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great…

— Carl Jung

The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or…

— Carl Jung

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the…

— Carl Jung

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their…

— Carl Jung

The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course…

— Carl Jung