Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Carl Jung

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

— Carl Jung

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

— Carl Jung

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

— Carl Jung

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

— Carl Jung

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

— Carl Jung

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

— Carl Jung

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

— Carl Jung

Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

— Carl Jung

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether…

— 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

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear…

— Carl Jung

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

— 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

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as…

— Carl Jung

Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of…

— Carl Jung

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to…

— Carl Jung

We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering,…

— 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

Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead…

— Carl Jung

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature.…

— 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

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad…

— Carl Jung

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear…

— Carl Jung

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands…

— Carl Jung

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only…

— Carl Jung

“There are no problems without consciousness. ..., in what way does consciousness arise? Nobody can say with certainty; but we can observe…

— Carl Jung

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In…

— Carl Jung

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace…

— Carl Jung

The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what…

— Carl Jung

“CG Jung:Thoughts grow in me like a forest, populated by many different animals. But man is domineering in his thinking, and therefore…

— Carl Jung

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

— 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

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

— Carl Jung

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into…

— Carl Jung

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

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And…

— Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution,…

— Carl Jung

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre…

— Carl Jung