People Quotes by Carl Jung

People cannot stand too much Reality.

— Carl Jung

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were…

— Carl Jung

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

— Carl Jung

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

— Carl Jung

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

— Carl Jung

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the…

— Carl Jung

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we…

— Carl Jung

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

— Carl Jung

Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own…

— Carl Jung

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods,…

— Carl Jung

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of…

— Carl Jung

I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if…

— Carl Jung

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than…

— Carl Jung

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own…

— Carl Jung

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can…

— Carl Jung

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is…

— Carl Jung

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also…

— Carl Jung

In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one…

— Carl Jung

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and…

— 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

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.…

— Carl Jung

Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of…

— Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by…

— Carl Jung

With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the…

— Carl Jung

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether,…

— Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their…

— Carl Jung

Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the…

— 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

I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient…

— Carl Jung

The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people…

— Carl Jung