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Psychology Quotes by Carl Jung

83 Psychology quotes by Carl Jung

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Jung likens the unconscious to a boundless sea, teeming with endless, self‑replenishing creatures. He describes the psyche as a natural force where even painful parts serve a purpose. Symbols, for him, are vivid images that reveal the hidden nature of the spirit.

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The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

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The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

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“‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

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If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.

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The creative mind plays with the objects it loves

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Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

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The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

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Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

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Persona, the mask or image we present to the world. Designed to make a particular impression on others, while concealing our true…

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Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

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The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the…

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Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

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It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound . . . Everything is mediated through the mind.

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

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“Non foras ire, in interiore homine habitat veritas' (Go not outside; truth dwells in the inner man).”

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Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

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It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory…

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Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as…

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Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and…

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The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the…

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

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

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The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of…

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“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you…

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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... It…

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Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this…

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

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The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.…

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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course…

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Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an…

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

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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only…

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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

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Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

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The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

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

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From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment…

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The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is…

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It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate…

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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.