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Carl Jung Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.”
— Carl Jung, A quote by Carl Jung
Tagged: Believe In Yourself, Personality, Trust Yourself, Self-Worth, Encouragement
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Pain, Soul, Enlightenment
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
— Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1
Tagged: Vision, Passion
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
— Carl Jung, Carl Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous: The Twelve Steps as a Spiritual Journey of Individuation
Tagged: actions, Personality
“To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.”
— Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols
Tagged: Life, Motivations
“Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.”
— Carl Jung, via Wikiquote
Tagged: Understanding, comprehending, Understanding Yourself, Knowing Better, Acceptance
“The spirit of the depths taught me to say: 'I am the servant of a child.' Through this dictum I learn above all the most extreme humility, as what I most need.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Child God, Humility
“Paradoxically enough, an egocentric (inflated) consciousness is a regression of consciousness into unconsciousness.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Egocentric People, Paradoxes
“No doubts can exist in the herd; the bigger the crowd the better the truth— and the greater the catastrophe.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Herd Mentality, Herds, Against The Herd, Sheep Thought
“I do not call the man who admits his ignorance an obscurantist; I think it is much rather the man whose consciousness is not sufficiently developed for him to be aware of his ignorance.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Socrates Thesis, You Know Nothing, (EX)Formation
“Experience, not books, is what leads to understanding.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: street smarts, Learning, How To Find Knowlege
“The real mystery does not behave mysteriously or secretively; it speaks a secret language, it adumbrates itself by a variety of images which all indicate its true nature. It is known only through vague hints but essentially unknown.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: The Secret of Secrey, Invisible Communication, Silent Sounds
“The God is where you are not.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Deferral, God, Theology, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“He belongs on one side to man’s primordial animal nature which will endure as long as man has an animal body. On the other side, he is related to the highest forms of the spirit. But he only thrives when spirit and instinct are in right harmony. If one or the other is lacking to him, the result is injury or at least a lopsidedness that may easily veer towards the pathological.”
— Carl Jung, Collected Works, Vol. VII
Tagged: Eros, Lust, Sex, The Split of Human Nature
“Believe me: It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws. Within us is the way, the truth, and the life.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Learning, Path, Relativity, Teaching, Truth
“So God has never been made. He has always been. Then slowly, with the increase of consciousness, when people discovered that they could make different ideas about the deity, they came to the conclusion that it was nothing but an idea, and they quite forgot the real phenomenon that is behind all the ideas. You see, they became so identical with the products of their own consciousness that they thought they had created him. But such abuse brings about its own revenge. The more people created ideas about God, the more they depleted and devitalized nature. And then it looked as if that primordial fact of the world had only taken place in imagination. Of course, be that process we created consciousness, but we have built up a thick wall between ourselves and primordial facts, between ourselves and the divine presence. We are so far away that nobody knows what one is talking about when one speaks of that divine presence, and if anybody discovers it suddenly, he thinks it is most amazing; yet it is the most simple fact. But we are no longer simple enough on account of that thick wall of ideas; we have so many preconceived ideas about what the divine presence ought to be, that we have deprived ourselves of the faculty of seeing it. Yet the primordial facts are still in the world; they happen all the time, only we have given them so many names that we don't see the wood any longer on account of the trees”
— Carl Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939
Tagged: Consciousness, Theology
“Although there were four elements (earth, water, fire, and air) and four qualities (hot, cold, dry, and moist), there were only three colours: black, white, and red. Since the process never led to the desired goal and since the individual parts of it were never carried out in any standardized manner, the change in the classification of its stages cannot be due to extraneous reasons but has more to do with the symbolical significance of the quaternity and the trinity; in other words, it is due to inner psychological reasons.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Finding Patterns Due To Inner Psychological Reasons, Numerical Mind Games
“The spirit of this time considers itself extremely clever, like every such spirit of the time. But wisdom is simpleminded, not just simple. Because of this, the clever person mocks wisdom, since mockery is his weapon. He uses the pointed, poisonous weapon, because he is struck by naive wisdom. If he were not struck, he would not need the weapon. Only in the desert do we become aware of our terrible simplemindedness, but we are afraid of admitting it. That is why we are scornful. But mockery does not attain simplemindedness. The mockery falls on the mocker, and in the desert where no one hears and answers, he suffocates from his own scorn.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Desert, Ego, Mockery, Negativity, Scorn
“You thought you knew that abyss? It is another thing to experience it. Everything will happen to you. Think of all the frightful and devilish things that men have inflicted on their brothers. That should happen to you in your heart. Suffer it yourself through your own hand, and know that it is your own heinous and devilish hand that inflicts the suffering on you, but not your brother, who wrestles with his own devils.”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)
Tagged: Abyss, Connectionism, Evil, Horror, One Body, Relationalism, Suffering, Terror
“Nietzsche overreached himself by identifying his ego with the superman Zarathustra, the part of the personality that was struggling into consciousness. But can we speak of Zarathustra as a part of the personality? Was he not rather something superhuman— something which man is not, though he has his share in it? Is God really dead, because Nietzsche declared that he had not been heard of for a long time? May he not have come back in the guise of the superman?”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: Why Nietzsche Is Not A Nihilist, Why Nietzsche Went Insane
“The resistance of the conscious mind to the unconscious and the depreciation of the latter were historical necessities in the development of the human psyche, for otherwise the conscious mind would never have been able to differentiate itself at all. But modern man’s consciousness has strayed rather too far from the fact of the unconscious. We have even forgotten that the psyche is by no means of our design, but is for the most part autonomous and unconscious.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Tagged: This Body Is Not Yours, unconscious, Consciousness, Quote of the Moment
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