The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative… — 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
The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually… — 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 difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In… — 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
I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — 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
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the… — 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
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution,… — 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
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
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
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
Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming. — Carl Jung Copy Share
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
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share
“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
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
