Skip to content

Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Carl Jung

45 Philosophy of Mind quotes by Carl Jung

All Philosophy of Mind quotes Carl Jung’s page

A hidden layer of the mind stores patterns passed down from ancestors, like an old family recipe. Jung points out that the unconscious is as important as conscious thought, and that an inflated consciousness can become self‑centered and blind to learning. He likens the mind’s growth to an acorn becoming an oak.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

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

Image

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

Image

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

Image

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

Image

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

Image

Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

Image

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness,…

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and…

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Image

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

Image

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

Image

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and...each step forward has been a most painful and…

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Other authors on Philosophy of Mind

More by Carl Jung

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

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

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

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him…

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given…

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

“He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living…

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

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.