Explore Quotes by Carl Jung

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that approaches us from the dark realm is regarded either as coming from outside and, therefore, as real, or else as a hallucination and, therefore, not true. The idea that anything could be real or true which does not come from outside has hardly begun to dawn on contemporary man.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. 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.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.