The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also… — 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
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
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of… — 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
A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual. — 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
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individuals conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image