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
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to… — 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
Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells… — 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
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
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
The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit… — 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
I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us… — 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
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and… — 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
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
The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas… — 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
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
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face 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 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)
