Individual Quotes by Carl Jung

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

— Carl Jung

When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

— Carl Jung

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

— 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

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

— Carl Jung

The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation…

— Carl Jung

The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

— Carl Jung

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

— Carl Jung

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individuals conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At…

— Carl Jung

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

— 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

Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual…

— Carl Jung

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can…

— Carl Jung

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in…

— Carl Jung

On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable…

— Carl Jung

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization,…

— Carl Jung

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities .…

— Carl Jung

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.…

— Carl Jung

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has…

— Carl Jung

...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The…

— Carl Jung

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against…

— Carl Jung

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if…

— 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

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness…

— Carl Jung

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite…

— Carl Jung

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

— Carl Jung

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be…

— Carl Jung

As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives…

— Carl Jung

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all…

— Carl Jung

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must…

— Carl Jung

If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the…

— Carl Jung

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality…

— Carl Jung

I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every…

— Carl Jung

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time…

— Carl Jung

Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our…

— Carl Jung