Carl Jung Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Carl Jung quotes, Carl Jung sayings, and Carl Jung proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. Carl Jung
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Carl Jung
Emotion is the chief source of all becoming conscious. There can be no transformation of darkness into light...without emotion. Carl Jung
A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead. Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. Carl Jung
Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego. Carl Jung
Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart . Who looks inside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung
There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. Carl Jung
No field could thrive if we assumed that the oats we sowed were wheat, nor could our dog thrive if we took it to be a camel, and so it is unfair to our friends and unfair to ourselves to assume that we can be supermen. Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart . Who looks inside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart . Who looks inside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
I was frequently so wrought up that I had to do certain yoga exercises in order to hold my emotions in check. But since it was my purpose to know what was going on within myself, I would do these exercises only until I had calmed myself enough to resume my work with the unconscious. As soon as I had the feeling that I was myself again, I abandoned this restraint upon the emotions and allowed the images and inner voices to speak afresh. The Indian, on the other hand, does yoga exercises in order to obliterate completely the multitude of psychic contents and images. Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung
We understand the ego as the complex factor to which all conscious contents are related. It forms, as it were, the centre of the field of consciousness; and, in so far as this comprises the empirical personality, the ego is the subject of all personal acts of consciousness. The relation of a psychic content to the ego forms the criterion of its consciousness, for no content can be conscious until it is represented to a subject. Carl Jung
In actual life, it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life. Carl Jung
The man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. Carl Jung
Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego. Carl Jung
If meaninglessness were absolutely preponderant, the meaningless ends of life would vanish to an increasing degree with each step in our development. But that is— or seems to me— not the case. Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is- or has-meaning and meaninglessness. Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart . Who looks inside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
Psychotherapy has taught us that in the final reckoning it is not knowledge, not technical skill, that has a curative effect, but the personality of the doctor. Carl Jung
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering. Carl Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if sadness did not balance it. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung
One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is. Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung