World Quotes by Carl Jung

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

— Carl Jung

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

— Carl Jung

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

— Carl Jung

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

— Carl Jung

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

— Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

— Carl Jung

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we…

— Carl Jung

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

— Carl Jung

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be…

— Carl Jung

...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more…

— Carl Jung

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to…

— Carl Jung

It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making…

— Carl Jung

I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples,…

— Carl Jung

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing…

— Carl Jung

For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas…

— Carl Jung

There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to…

— Carl Jung

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a…

— Carl Jung

Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is…

— Carl Jung

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world,…

— Carl Jung

It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational…

— Carl Jung

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens…

— Carl Jung

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has…

— Carl Jung

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

— Carl Jung

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

— Carl Jung

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

— Carl Jung

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

— Carl Jung

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

— Carl Jung

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

— Carl Jung

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

— Carl Jung

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

— Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite…

— Carl Jung

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

— Carl Jung

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

— Carl Jung